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nationalpost.com	STEALING THE TITANIC: ARTIFACTS AUCTION DRAWS ACCUSATIONS OF GRAVE ROBBERY On April 15, on the 100th anniversary of the RMS Titanic’s sinking, an auction house in New York will sell off $185-million-worth of items salvaged from the wreck: Eye-glasses, antique currency, jewellery, clothing and — the pièce de resistance — a 17-tonne section of the hull ripped clean in the ship’s final violent moments. In Halifax, the burial place of 150 Titanic victims, news of the auction prompted disgust. “We’re into preserving and documenting — not into pillaging,” Lynn-Marie Richard, registrar for the city’s Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, told The Chronicle Herald. The man who located the Titanic sitting upright at the bottom of the Atlantic would agree....	28th January 2012
northwalesweeklynews.co.uk	A LITTLE GIRL'S MEMORIES OF HAROLD LOWE THE FIFTH OFFICER FROM THE TITANIC N 1936, when Annette Roberts was ten years old, she was taken by her mother Eluned to the home of Harold Godfrey Lowe, who had been the fifth officer aboard the Titanic. Annette’s aunt Nancy was friendly with Lowe’s wife, Ellen. The two women would often visit each other, and this time Annette was invited along for afternoon tea....	26th January 2012
chicagonow.com	CHICAGO LINKS TO THE TITANIC - WILLIAM T. STEAD Stead had predicted that he would die from either lynching or drowning. A clairvoyant friend of his told him that he would be kicked to death in the streets of London, which was probably more of an educated guess given the fact that Stead liked to "stir the pot" so to speak....	22nd January 2012
walesonline.co.uk	TITANIC VALOUR OF HAROLD LOWE- THE WELSHMAN WHO ROWED BACK TO SAVE DROWNING ... - WALESONLINE He has been cast as one of the few courageous figures to emerge on a night best remembered for cowardice and folly. But the author of a new book on the Titanic’s fifth officer Harold Lowe says the received wisdom that paints him as the one seaman brave enough to attempt a rescue tells only half the story, as Darren Devine finds out. ...	21st January 2012
Coventry Telegraph	GRANDSON OF TITANIC SURVIVOR TELLS HIS STORY IN COVENTRY HE grandson of a Titanic survivor was in Coventry yesterday to share his grandfather’s harrowing story.Phillip Littlejohn has joined the Titanic Heritage Trust to hold a series of talks in the city on what really happened on the night the infamous ship sank.Phillip’s grandfather, Alexander James Littlejohn, was a first class steward on the ship....	20th January 2012
guardian.co.uk	ROBIN GIBB TO HONOUR TITANIC VICTIMS IN FIRST 'CLASSICAL' COMPOSITION - OBSERVER Titanic Requiem – which will be composed by Bee Gees singer and son – will be played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra...	20th January 2012
burtonmail.co.uk	CARL WAS A GREAT ADVENTURER - NOT BAD FOR A PLUMBER FROM STAFFORDSHIRE Carl, 39, from Kings Bromley, was already an accomplished diver when he was asked by film director James Cameron to work on a diving expedition to the Titanic in 2003 — six years after the blockbuster film which earned the film-maker 11 Oscars....	18th January 2012
theaustralian.com.au	TITANIC LINK TO ITALIAN COSTA CONCORDIA DISASTER VALENTINA Capuano could not believe it when the luxury cruise ship she was on began to sink - she only hoped that she would be saved like her grandmother, who survived the Titanic disaster, 100 years ago. ...	18th January 2012
newsletter.co.uk	TITANIC WILL BE BIGGER THAN THE OLYMPICS A TRAVEL journalist has claimed that the Titanic commemorations in Belfast will be an even bigger draw for tourists than this year’s London Olympics. ...	18th January 2012
southportvisiter.co.uk	TITANIC CENTENARY EVENT SEARCHES FOR DESCENDANTS OF THE CAPTAIN OF THE CALIFORNIAN - SOUTHPORT VISITER ORGANISERS of a major Titanic commemoration in Liverpool Cathedral are on the hunt for the descendants of one of the ship’s captains involved in the tragedy.They hope to invite family members of Captain Stanley Lord to the sold-out event on March 24....	17th January 2012
Herald News	SCIENTIST DECRIES HUGE TITANIC AUCTION He said he agrees with Hart, who last saw her father when he wrapped her in a blanket and placed her in a lifeboat with her mother. Hart, who died in 1996, equated taking artifacts from the Titanic site to robbing graves in a cemetery. Blasco said such a thing would never be allowed on land, and watery graves such as the Titanic site should be treated the same as gravesites on land. He likened the American company’s actions to driving a truck into a cemetery, taking things from gravesites and selling them....	16th January 2012
holdthefrontpage.co.uk	SCOTTISH DAILY NAILS TITANIC MYTH AS IT GOES TABLOID A Scottish daily newspaper used its last-ever broadsheet edition to nail a long-standing myth about how it reported the Titanic disaster. According to urban legend, the Aberdeen-based Press and Journal covered the 1912 shipping catastrophe with the headline: “North-East man lost at sea.” The DC Thomson-owned P&J decided to set the record straight in its final broadsheet edition on Friday before this week’s tabloid relaunch....	16th January 2012
Herald News	CALL OF TITANIC WILL GO OUT AGAIN Nearly 100 years ago, Jimmy Myrick, a 14-year-old Newfoundland boy, was one of the first people to hear RMS Titanic's late-night distress call. The transmissions from the stricken vessel and the resulting bustle of activity at the Cape Race Marconi Station that occurred after Myrick alerted the station’s wireless operators to the impending disaster will be re-enacted on April 14 as part of the 100th anniversary of the world’s most fascinating marine tragedies....	14th January 2012
irishtimes.com	HUMAN HEART OF A TRAGEDY HISTORY: FRANK McLYNN reviews Titanic Lives: Migrants, Millionaires, Conmen and Crew By Richard Davenport-Hines...	14th January 2012
dailymail.co.uk	AN EERIE TRIP DIVING TWO MILES TO SEE THE TITANIC As the craft glides through the freezing depths of the ocean, more than two miles below the surface, I stare out through the thick glass window into the abyss. From the external lights of our vessel, I can see across the ancient terrain, which looks almost like a lunar landscape. Occasionally strange aquatic creatures dart across my vision, adding to the alien atmosphere. Then suddenly, there it is, the sight I shall never forget. Rising before my eyes is the prow of the most famous ship in the world. ...	12th January 2012
theday.com	NEW TITANIC EXHIBIT WILL RECREATE SHIP'S DISCOVERY Until now, Ballard said, their families had not publicized their connection with the ship because they felt in some way ashamed and responsible for what had occurred. But Ballard recently went to Belfast and met with the families, who agreed to be interviewed for the first time. "For me, this story has always been about the people, not the ship," Ballard said....	12th January 2012
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	PIRRIE'S ROLLS ROYCE RETURNS TO NORTHERN IRELAND It turned heads when it was built more than a century ago. Made to order for the chairman of Harland and Wolff, this car, like the luxury liner it is named after, was the last word in absolutely everything. And all eyes will again be on the 101-year-old Titanic Ghost Rolls Royce when it returns to Northern Ireland for the first time in 85 years later this month. ...	12th January 2012
wsj.com	TITANIC CENTENNIAL COMMEMORATIONS SINK TO NEW LOWS This year, instead of sinking into a celebration of catastrophic kitsch, it's worth restoring the Titanic to its rightful place as a most modern memento mori. What should we remember? Steven Biel, in his cultural history of the Titanic, aptly highlighted Henry Adams's response to the tragedy: "Nature jeers at us for our folly."...	12th January 2012
scarborougheveningnews.co.uk	DON'T MISS THE TITANIC BOAT. Scarborough's tourism bosses are being urged not to “miss the boat” and commemorate the town’s links to an historic maritime disaster....	11th January 2012
telegraph.co.uk	HALIFAX: THE TITANIC'S UNDERTAKER Next April the Nova Scotia town will mark the centenary of its role in retrieving and burying the ship’s passengers, says Nigel Richardson. ...	11th January 2012
yourlocalguardian.co.uk	POSTCARD FROM THORNTON HEATH MAN ON TITANIC UP FOR SALE A postcard sent from a passenger on the ill-fated Titanic liner is set to fetch up to £4,000 at auction. Andrew Johnston, who lived with his family in Thornton Heath, sent the postcard to his dad from the ship as it left Queenstown, now Cobh in Cork, Ireland. ...	11th January 2012
dailyecho.co.uk	GRANDDAUGHTER OF CARPATHIA MASTER SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON VISITS SOUTHAMPTON THE granddaughter of the Southampton sea captain who saved the lives of more than 700 survivors of the Titanic disaster, visited the city’s port today.Rosemary Pettet’s grandfather was Sir Arthur Rostron, master of the Cunard liner, Carpathia, who answered the SOS from Titanic as she was sinking in the Atlantic. ...	10th January 2012
timeslive.co.za	AN EPIC LOVE STORY AND TITANIC RETOLD - TIMES LIVE An estimated 1 000 books have already been written on the liner and its fate. A lot more are coming. The challenge, therefore, for writers is to find a new way to tell the story. For Richard Davenport-Hines, whose just-published Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew (HarperPress) has drawn lavish praise from the critics, the answer lay not only in detailing the stories of the passengers - from the upper class toffs to the political, religious and economic refugees in third class - but also those of the men who built and owned the ship, and the crew who serviced her, thus presenting a more complete overview of Edwardian society....	9th January 2012
owensoundsuntimes.com	AUCTION OF TITANIC ARTIFACTS SEEMS 'FISHY' SAYS COLLECTOR STEVE SANTINI Santini owns two of what he believes are only about a dozen deck chairs plucked from the ocean. Santini said he hopes the artifacts at auction will be re-assembled into a larger, permanent exhibit. But Santini said he wonders if it may just be a big publicity stunt. "I'm not entirely sure they're for sale."...	9th January 2012
ca	TITANIC AUCTION NOT POPULAR AT MARITIME MUSEUM - THECHRONICLEHERALD.CA The sale of more than 5,000 artifacts salvaged from the world’s most famous shipwreck is causing concerns for a local museum official. Concerns serious enough the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic will never consider hosting the Titanic relics — even as a temporary exhibit. "No maritime museum in the world that is part of the (International Congress of Maritime Museums) would display any of these items," the museum’s registrar Lynn-Marie Richard said in a recent interview....	8th January 2012
wimbledonguardian.co.uk	THE JOURNALIST WHO 'SANK' THE TITANIC Journalist W.T. Stead, one of the best known victims of the Titanic disaster exactly 100 years ago in April this year, was also one of Wimbledon’s most famous residents.William Thomas Stead (1849-1912) lived at Cambridge House, Wimbledon Park Road South (now part of Church Road). At 2.20am, 15 April 1912 he was on the world’s most famous ship as it sank into the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. ...	6th January 2012
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC RELICS UP FOR AUCTION - BBC NEWS Almost 100 years after the Titanic ocean liner was sunk by an iceberg on her maiden voyage to New York, artefacts retrieved from the ship are about to go on auction....	6th January 2012
eventmagazine.co.uk	TITANIC STORY TO BE BROADCAST LIVE FROM BELFAST - EVENT MAGAZINE The tale of the Titanic will be recreated through a documentary and music event at Belfast's Waterfront Hall to commemorate the centenary of the boat's sinking. The event on 14 April will be broadcast live on BBC Two from Belfast’s waterside venue, near the site where the ship was launched in 1911. Organisers say they are in talks with "all the major international broadcasters" to show the event globally....	3rd January 2012
irishtimes.com	FLARES AND GUN SALUTE IN CORK PAY TRIBUTE TO LOST LIVES OF 'TITANIC' - IRISH TIMES ONE HUNDRED and twenty-three flares were released from Spike Island in Co Cork to commemorate the individuals who boarded the ill-fated Titanic from nearby Cobh on April 11th, 1912. When the Titanic struck an iceberg in the north Atlantic four days later, it sank with the loss of over 1,500 lives, including 79 of those who boarded in Cobh. Among those who died was a Cobh native, able seaman Lionel Leonard, who travelled as a third-class passenger....	2nd January 2012
mirror.co.uk	GOING OVERBOARD AS TITANIC FEVER BEGINS TO GO ON ... AND ON AND ON - MIRROR.CO.UK (BLOG) There is little doubt that we are all going to be engulfed with Titanic fever over the next few months, as the centenary of the liner's sinking approaches. Memorial cruises, films and exhibitions are all being prepared for the great event which will capture our attention before the arrival of distractions such as The Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics....	2nd January 2012
guardian.co.uk	SCOTT'S POLAR DISASTER LIVES ON - THE GUARDIAN The explorer's death sparked a frenzy of mourning, but he was later viewed as a buffoon. A century on, author Carol Birch asks: is he a hero or not?...	31st December 2011
timesandstar.co.uk	SEEKING TITANIC VOLUNTEERS - TIMES AND STAR THIRTY volunteers are needed to help staff a Titanic display in Maryport from March to May. Joe Kewin, of Maryport Maritime Museum, said the exhibition at The Wave Centre would be one of the key events around the country and the world marking the 100th anniversary of the loss of the ship, which sank on its maiden voyage....	29th December 2011
thisissomerset.co.uk	TITANIC . . . THE SHIP WE CAN'T FORGET, 100 YEARS ON - THIS IS SOMERSET Almost 100 years on, the Titanic disaster still tugs at the heartstrings. The events of that dramatic night in April 1912 are well known but constant retelling of the tale only seems to add more lustre to the legend. The hosting of 100th anniversary events in 2012 will introduce a new generation to the Titanic story in a similar way that interest was renewed by James Cameron's Oscar-winning film in 1997....	29th December 2011
feedsportal.com	TITANIC ARTEFACTS TO GO UP FOR AUCTION - TELEGRAPH.CO.UK The owner of the largest trove of artefacts salvaged from the Titanic is putting the vast collection up for auction as a single lot in 2012, the 100th anniversary of the world's most famous shipwreck. ...	29th December 2011
examiner.co.uk	HUDDERSFIELD TITANIC BAND LEADER TO FEATURE IN NEW SHOW BY DOWNTON ABBEY ... - HUDDERSFIELD EXAMINER People in Huddersfield recall the heroism of Titanic bandleader Wallace Hartley. Hartley was born and raised in Colne, Lancashire, and initially made his living playing in café orchestras across Yorkshire. He moved with his family to Dewsbury and then Almondbury in 1893 and joined Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra, in which he played until 1901 when he moved to another orchestra in Bridlington. ...	28th December 2011
bizjournals.com	TITANIC ARTIFACTS TO BE AUCTIONED - ATLANTA BUSINESS CHRONICLE Thousands of artifacts from the Titanic will be auctioned next year, the artifacts' owner, Premier Exhibitions Inc. , said today. Premier has hired Guernsey’s Auctioneers to sell the artifacts. The results of the auction will be announced on April 15 in New York City. Premier’s collection includes over five thousand artifacts recovered in expeditions to the wreck site in 1987, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2004....	23rd December 2011
bbc.co.uk	CENTENARY PROVES ENDURING APPEAL OF THE TITANIC STORY - BBC NEWS Tickets are already selling well as there appears to be no dip in the public's enthusiasm for the story of the ill-fated luxury liner. Louise Patten, granddaughter of the ship's second officer Charles Lightoller, told the BBC why she believes the story still exerts such a powerful pull 100 years on....	22nd December 2011
dailymail.co.uk	TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TICKETS ORDERED FOR TITANIC CENTRE Nearly 35,000 Titanic enthusiasts have already pre-ordered tickets to tour a new £90 million visitor attraction dedicated to the doomed liner. The interest in Titanic Belfast - 400,000 are expected to pay a visit in its first year - emerged as its operators marked 100 days until Northern Ireland's largest ever tourism project opens its doors. The eye-catching building, which is made up of 3,000 aluminium panels shaped like the vessel's hull, has been built on the spot where the liner was first rolled into the water in 1911. ...	22nd December 2011
Dumfries and Galloway Standard	NEW TITANIC CLAIMS BLAME DALBEATTIE MAN A SON of Dalbeattie could have prevented the world’s worst maritime disaster. William Murdoch, first officer on the ill-fated Titanic, might have saved the “unsinkable” passenger liner had he taken immediate action when an iceberg was spotted. Instead, according to a new book, Murdoch delayed for 30 seconds, analysing information coming his way. And that delay, the researchers who wrote “Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic: A Centennial Reappraisal” claim, meant the ship was unable to avoid the collision that ended with more than 1,500 people losing their lives....	16th December 2011
falmouthpacket.co.uk	PLAQUE WILL HONOUR TITANIC VICTIMS - FALMOUTH PACKET Two Porthleven men who lost their lives on the sinking Titanic are to be remembered with a plaque in the port. Brothers Edgar and Fred Giles were sailing to America to “start a new life” according to mayor Mark Berryman, who has been researching the history of their lives tragically cut short almost a century ago. ...	15th December 2011
irishtimes.com	TITANIC FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH FETCHES €2200 AT AUCTION - IRISH TIMES A PHOTOGRAPH of a Co Westmeath woman and her five sons who perished in the Titanic disaster was sold at auction in Dublin yesterday for €2,200. Margaret Rice (39), a widow, and her sons Albert (10), George (8), Eric (7), Arthur (4) and Eugene (2), from Athlone, all died when the ship sank on April 15th, 1912. The photograph was sold by two of her descendants and was bought by a telephone bidder....	15th December 2011
bbc.co.uk	HISTORIC TITANIC COMPANY MINUTE BOOK BOUGHT AT AUCTION BY H&W - BBC NEWS The Belfast shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff, which built the Titanic, has bought back its original Minute Book for an undisclosed sum. The item was just one lot that went under the hammer at an auction of rare books and historical memorabilia in Dublin this afternoon. ...	14th December 2011
eventmagazine.co.uk	LIVERPOOL TO COMMEMORATE TITANIC WITH GIANT STREET THEATRE PERFORMANCE - EVENT MAGAZINE Gigantic puppets will roam the centre of Liverpool next April as the city commemorates the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The Titanic was registered in Liverpool making the city its home port, and at least 90 members of its crew were from Merseyside, or had close links to the area....	14th December 2011
thespec.com	CHURCH TO PLACE MARKER ON GRAVE OF TITANIC SURVIVOR FROM PORT DOVER - HAMILTON SPECTATOR Plans are in the works for a survivor of the Titanic who was born in Port Dover, Ont., to have a marker placed on his burial spot near London, England. William Edwy Ryerson was born in Port Dover in 1878 and served as a 2nd class steward on the luxury passenger liner. He has been lying in an unmarked grave for more than 60 years....	13th December 2011
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk	PRECINCT HONOUR FOR COLNE'S TITANIC HERO - LANCASHIRE TELEGRAPH COLNE Precinct could be renamed in honour of the town’s most famous son to mark the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster. Talks are taking place to name the town centre shopping arcade after bandmaster Wallace Hartley, who famously lead the band as the liner sank after hitting an iceberg. His body was recovered two weeks after the ship sank, still fully dressed in his bandmaster uniform, and returned to Colne where a huge procession followed his body to its burial on May 18 1912. ...	12th December 2011
u.tv	PUBLIC ACCESS TO TITANIC DRAWING OFFICE - U.TV The seven-year agreement between the Department of Enterprise and developers at Titanic Quarter is expected to be signed soon. It is hoped the building could be open to tourists for the centenary of the ship's sinking next April, after Titanic Belfast opens its doors to the world at the end of March. The attraction is expected to be thronged with visitors - but until recently all those enthusiasts could not have expected to get inside the historic drawing offices nearby where the vessel was designed....	12th December 2011
guardian.co.uk	A TITANIC FEAST No doubt it says something rather sick about me that when a friend mentioned it was possible to buy a book of recipes from the kitchens of the Titanic, I felt, for the very first time, a stirring of interest in the doomed liner. In the past, I've never quite "got" the Titanic. Last summer, I travelled to Hungary to see the set for Julian Fellowes's forthcoming series about the ship (the drama will mark the 100th anniversary of its sinking, which falls next year). But even faced with a vast replica, I found myself wondering why it is this particular disaster that resonates....	11th December 2011
	NEW TITANIC THEMED CHURCH STAINED GLASS WINDOW FOR LAHARDANE, IRELAND'S TITANIC VILLAGE Addergoole Titanic Society St Patrick’s Church in Lahardane Village, Ballina, Co Mayo, Ireland gets two new windows with the themes Titanic Rescue and Emigration. ...	10th December 2011
Daily Mail	'TITANIC SANK THIS MORNING': TELEGRAMS SENT BY SHIPPING FIRM'S HEAD TO HQ The first official announcement of the sinking of the Titanic is to go on sale. A series of telegrams from Bruce Ismay, the head of the ship's owners White Star Line, have emerged from a private collection and are set to be auctioned. The eight Marconi messages are expected to sell for £100,000....	9th December 2011
televisual.com	KING'S SPEECH INDIE BEDLAM TO MAKE TITANIC FEATURE Bedlam Productions, creator of the The King's Speech, has produced a new feature length drama documentary Titanic: Case Closed, which has been commissioned by Nat Geo International Channels and the Smithsonian Channel.   The 90-minute film is due for broadcast in April 2012 to mark the centenary of the ship's sinking. Titanic: Case Closed will explore the real reasons behind the sinking and lack of rescue of the RMS Titanic by closing the case on the events of that night which saw over 1,500 lives lost in the North Atlantic Ocean.  ...	8th December 2011
Realscreen.com	JAMES CAMERON TEAMING WITH NAT GEO FOR TITANIC DOC Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron will bring together the director with some of the world’s leading Titanic experts for what the network is calling “the ultimate forensic investigation into the science behind what sank the unsinkable ship on her maiden voyage.” The experts will also examine Cameron’s feature film take on the event, and bring to the fore what technology has revealed about the shipwreck since 1997....	7th December 2011
televisual.com	WHIZZ KID MAKES TITANIC CENTENARY SPECIAL FOR BBC The Titanic Centenary Commemoration - a live televised event - will be held in Belfast next April, 100 years after the tragic sinking of the legendary liner. It will be produced for BBC Two and BBC Northern Ireland by Whizz Kid Entertainment and Belfast-based integrated communications agency ASG. The 90-minute event will air in prime time across the UK from Belfast's Waterfront Hall on the night of April 14. The story of the legendary liner, built and launched in Belfast, will be retold through orchestral performances, a massed choir and documentary and archive material....	7th December 2011
ca	HALIFAX EXPLOSION VESSEL'S REMNANTS LIE IN FALKLANDS Built in 1889 by White Star, the same company that built the Titanic, it was first called the SS Runic, then the Tampican, and transported passengers on the Atlantic. In 1912, it was sold to Norway's South Pacific Whaling Company. The Imo amazingly survived its only terrible accident in Halifax but, with its new name, lasted only a few years....	6th December 2011
thespec.com	PLAN AFLOAT TO REMEMBER TITANIC STEWARD ON 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF SINKING William Edwy Ryerson has laid in an unmarked grave for more than 60 years, belying his involvement in the sinking of the Titanic, one of the world’s most infamous maritime disasters. Now, authorities of an Anglican Church outside London, England — where the former Hamiltonian was interred in 1949 in a pauper’s burial — are doing something about it....	5th December 2011
telegraph.co.uk	THE 30 SECONDS THAT SANK THE TITANIC The Titanic could have been saved but for a 30 second delay in the officer in charge giving the order to change the ship's course after the iceberg had been spotted, a new study has found. ...	4th December 2011
independent.co.uk	TITANIC: STILL MAKING WAVES AFTER 100 YEARS Next April marks a centenary of Titanic obsessing, and about the only principal in the sorry saga which seems not to have a book to itself is the iceberg. Somehow, the story has remained untold of how it became detached from the Greenland ice shelf, drifted on ocean currents into the path of the White Star liner, punctured it, and then carried on southward, gradually shrinking, before melting away completely....	4th December 2011
thetelegram.com	A TITANIC BOOST The man who brought â€œTitanicâ€ to the big screen will promote events at Cape Race marking the 100th anniversary of the shipâ€™s sinking. James Cameron, who directed the 1997 Oscar-winning film on the ill-fated luxury liner, has signed on as an ambassador for next yearâ€™s Receiving Titanic commemorations. Thatâ€™s according to Larry Daley, a St. Johnâ€™s-based Titanic enthusiast and entrepreneur....	2nd December 2011
mirror.co.uk	PAINTINGS THAT NEARLY SANK ON THE TITANIC SOLD FOR £7M TWO Russian paintings that narrowly avoided being sent to a watery grave on the Titanic have sold for nearly Â£7million. The early-20th century works by Vasili Polenov were booked on the ship for exhibition in the US. But the cargo was delayed and missed the doomed linerâ€™s maiden voyage in April 1912. ...	2nd December 2011
Romsey Advertiser	TITANIC ART READY FOR MUSEUM LAUNCH SCHOOLCHILDREN combined art and history to create a display piece for Southamptonâ€™s new Sea City museum. The city council invited Wellow Primary School to put together a picture of the Titanic for one of the education rooms at the attraction ahead of its opening next year. Kerry Somers, history leader at the school, said the 10- and 11-year-olds jumped at the chance to create the exhibit. ...	1st December 2011
shorenewstoday.com	WORLD TRAVELERS RECALL TRIP TO TITANIC BURIAL SITE Hearing about a display of artifacts from the Titanic at Shore Mall in Egg Harbor Township brought back memories for Rose and Bill Povse of Absecon. Not memories back to 1912 â€“ the couple, in their early 80s, laughed at the thought of that â€“ but of a visit to Nova Scotia they took in 2004, where many of the bodies recovered from the ill-fated voyage were taken....	1st December 2011
coventrytelegraph.net	TITANIC SURVIVOR'S SON RECOUNTS STORY TO COVENTRY SCHOOLKIDS - COVENTRY TELEGRAPH THE son of Titanicâ€™s oldest survivor came to Coventry to share his motherâ€™s harrowing tale of survival on the maiden voyage. Edith Brown was just 15 when she sailed on the Titanic as a second-class passenger with her mum and dad. Before her death in 1997 at the age of 101, she told her 10 children about the tragic sinking of the legendary vessel, which struck an iceberg 400 miles off Newfoundland, Canada, on April 14 1912....	28th November 2011
bbc.co.uk	STREET NAMED AFTER CARPATHIA'S CAPTAIN ARTHUR H ROSTRON A Hampshire street has been named after the captain of the ship which sailed to the aid of the stricken RMS Titanic in 1912. Captain Arthur H Rostron diverted the Carpathia to pick up survivors when Titanic sank in the north Atlantic....	25th November 2011
chroniclelive.co.uk	STROKE OF LUCK SAVED GEORDIE LAD FROM TITANIC - CHRONICLELIVE Stroke of luck saved Geordie lad from TitanicChronicleLiveIt turned out that if the original booking had went ahead, the Stein family would have left these shores aboard probably the most famous ship in the world, the ill-fated Titanic. But although Calvert later said that he was at the time disappointed not ......	23rd November 2011
westmeathindependent.ie	THE ATHLONE TITANIC SIX WHO NEVER CAME HOME - WESTMEATH INDEPENDENT The Athlone Titanic six who never came homeWestmeath IndependentTragically, the entire family later perished in the infamous Titanic disaster on April 15, 1912. Mealy's Auctioneers in Dublin said that the photo had been kept by the woman's relatives and passed down through the generations. ......	23rd November 2011
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC'S FINAL PHOTOGRAPHS BY FATHER FRANK BROWNE - BBC NEWS Some of the finest photographs taken of the Titanic will feature in a new edition of Father Frank Browneâ€™s Titanic Album which is to be launched at Cobh Heritage Centre in County Cork on Wednesday. The Jesuit's photographs were used by director James Cameron to reconstruct the ship for his 1997 blockbuster...	23rd November 2011
Royal Purple	"THE UNKNOWN CHILD" OF THE TITANIC After the Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, seamen recovered a 2-year-old boy from the water who would be known as “the unknown child” for years to come. It took more than 92 years for US Armed Forces DNA identification scientists and researchers to correctly identify “the unknown child” as Sidney Leslie Goodwin, who was aboard the maiden voyage with his mother Augusta, father Frederick, and five siblings Lilian (16), Charles (15), William (14), Jessie (12) and Harold (11)....	22nd November 2011
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	KATE WINSLET MAY 'RETURN TO TITANIC' ON DIVE WITH RICHARD BRANSON - BELFAST TELEGRAPH Titanic star Kate Winslet is to be invited on a once-in-a-lifetime voyage to see the sunken Belfast-built liner that inspired the movie that shot her to international stardom. Virgin boss Richard Branson is planning to shell out Â£38,000 to visit the Titanic wreck and he wants the star of the blockbuster movie based on the ship's story to join him. ...	21st November 2011
irishtimes.com	POIGNANT MEMENTO: FAMILY DIED IN 'TITANIC' DISASTER - IRISH TIMES A REMARKABLE photograph of a widowed Irish mother and her five young sons who perished in the Titanic disaster is to be sold at auction next month. Margaret Rice (39), a widow, and her sons Albert (10), George (8), Eric (7), Arthur (4) and Eugene (2), who lived in Athlone, Co Westmeath, all died when the infamous ship sank in the north Atlantic in April 1912....	21st November 2011
heraldnews.com	TITANIC SOCIETY WORRIED THAT REPLICA AT MARINE MUSEUM COULD FALL BY WAYSIDE - FALL RIVER HERALD NEWS The Titanic Historical Society Inc., which donated a 28-foot, 1-ton replica to the Marine Museum 25 years ago, recently sought assurance that its famous model would not sink into oblivion. Questions over the ship’s status, society members said, were prompted by a series of Herald News stories, including one on Oct. 27 reporting that the Internal Revenue Service revoked the Marine Museum’s nonprofit standing this year as a result of its failure to file IRS 990 forms for at least three years....	21st November 2011
RIA Novosti	TRAVEL COMPANIES CRITICIZED OVER TITANIC WRECKAGE CRUISES Travel companies that offer 15-day dive cruises to the Titanic's remains have come under under criticism from relatives of those killed in the tragedy. The participants of the cruisecritic.co.uk forum hit out at the first passengers of the scandalous cruise who discussed how they would dress up as “characters” who were on board the Titanic when it sank, the Daily Mail said....	16th November 2011
	HAROLD BRIDE - MARCONI RADIO OPERATOR Titanic Stories The Marconi Radio Operator's descendants visit Titanic's birthplace....	14th November 2011
nationalpost.com	THIS SHIP SAILS AGAIN A couple years back during a trip to Belfast, I was urged to visit the shipyards where the Titanic was built. The offer didn't seem all that appealing, since everyone knows the story: big ship, unsinkable, hubris, irony, birth of a metaphor and all that. But I went to the area now called Titanic Quarter, saw the massive dry dock where the vessel was created, took the tour and by the end had to admit the visit was interesting and fun, and not just because of the "Built by the Irish, Sunk by the British" T-shirts. Almost 100 years after it went down in the North Atlantic, the story of the Titanic remains compelling. The challenge is to find enough new to say....	14th November 2011
Chorley Guardian	TITANIC SURVIVOR FEATURED IN NEW BOOK The extraordinary life and career of a Titanic voyager from Chorley is being celebrated by a writer with a mission. Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller was the most senior surviving officer on the ship, and has fascinated writer Patrick Stenson for years. In a new edition of Patrick’s book, the former writer and broadcaster claims he has uncovered new evidence regarding the tragedy....	14th November 2011
travel-news.co.uk	VOICES FROM TITANIC ARRIVE AT A SINGAPORE MUSEUM A Century after RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, just two hours and 40 minutes after striking an iceberg, and with a loss of more than two thirds of the passengers and crew. The story has lost none of its power to shock. The arrival of the long-running artifacts exhibition in Singapore brings the raw emotion of Titanic’s infamous maiden voyage, aided by an audio narrative from imagineear....	6th November 2011
thisiswiltshire.co.uk	WELCOME ON BOARD DEVIZES is becoming closely associated with the ill-fated ocean liner SS Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic 100 years ago next April. Local auctioneers Henry Aldridge & Son held their latest sale of Titanic memorabilia on Saturday and now writer John Blake has made a contribution to the literature on the subject. To mark the centenary, Mr Blake, a retired Royal Navy lieutenant-commander who lives in Devizes, was commissioned to write a book commemorating the “unsinkable” ship which was the state of the art in travel 100 years ago. ...	6th November 2011
irishcentral.com	MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE HIGHLIGHT OF CORK TITANIC EXHIBIT A farewell message in a bottle that was thrown from the Titanic can now be seen at the Titanic Exhibition in the Cobh Heritage Center. The letter, which was presented by a family member of the victim, goes on display just as next year's centenary of the ship's sinking approaches. Jeremiah Burke didn’t have much time to write a last note to his family as the Titanic went down. The 19-year-old, who was traveling from his home in Glanmire, Co. Cork with his 18-year-old cousin Nora Hegarty, simply said "goodbye all" in his last note....	5th November 2011
birminghampost.net	BIRMINGHAM'S FORGOTTEN INDUSTRIAL PIONEER WHO DIED ON THE TITANIC He is perhaps Birmingham’s forgotten industrial pioneer – and he met his end during the most infamous maritime disaster in history. His contribution to industry in Birmingham was as significant and compelling as the likes of Matthew Boulton and George Cadbury, yet few are familiar with the name William Hipkins. As managing director, William Edward Hipkins transformed W&T Avery Limited from a burgeoning maker of scales into the world’s largest manufacturer of weighing machines. ...	4th November 2011
dgstandard.co.uk	RED ROSES FOR TITANIC HERO MUSICIAN - JOCK HUME ALMOST a century has past since the great ocean liner, the RMS Titanic, collided with an iceberg on its maiden voyage. The worst maritime disaster at peacetime in living history claimed the lives of 1,517 people on April 15, 1912, including that of one of the ship’s musicians, a young man called John Law Hume. Born and raised in Dumfries, before joining the ill-fated band of musicians on the White Star Ocean liner, the body of 21-year-old Jock was recovered from the waters of the Northern Atlantic by the MacKay Bennett shortly after the Titanic sank. His unidentified body was buried in May of that year at Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia....	4th November 2011
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk	MADNESS STAR SUGGS COMES TO COLNE TO RESEARCH TITANIC BAND LEADER WALLACE HARTLEY MADNESS frontman Suggs toured East Lancashire in the search of its Titanic legacy. He stopped off at Blackburn train station before boarding the train to Colne on his voyage of discovery yesterday. Along with the production team from UKTV, he filmed near The Crown pub, at Colne Cemetery and at the statue of Wallace Henry Hartley who famously led a band as RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage. ...	3rd November 2011
newsletter.co.uk	PENSIONERS TELL OF PRIDE OVER TITANIC DISPLAY A LARGE outdoor ceramic artwork on the Titanic created by a group of pensioners has gone on display in north Belfast. The display put together by 15 people was inspired by personal memories and a trip to ‘TITANICa’ at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum’s — an exhibition which opened earlier this year to mark the centenary of the launch of the ship. As part of the creative process, the pensioners explored the history of Edwardian Belfast, the shipbuilding industry in Belfast and the on-board lifestyle of passengers who travelled on the Titanic. ...	3rd November 2011
co.uk	TITANIC MENU TASTING UNDERWAY AHEAD OF CENTENARY EVENT IN STOKE-ON-TRENT Tasting sessions are underway for an event commemorating the sinking of the HMS Titanic and its Stoke-on-Trent born captain Edward Smith. The three day festival, which is being planned by The Lord Mayor’s Office in Stoke-on-Trent and Titanic Brewery, will include a dinner showcasing Edwardian food from the ship’s original first class menu....	3rd November 2011
thisishampshire.net	SOUTHAMPTON LOSES OUT TO BELFAST OVER TITANIC CENTENARY Both cities, each with a long maritime history and close connections with the ill-fated liner, are aiming to attract international attention when the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking is commemorated in April 2012. Now it seems Belfast has clinched the prized top position with not only the construction of a major £97m visitor attraction dedicated to the White Star ship, but also by the announcement of a unique partnership between the Ulster city and the American deep-sea explorer who found the liner’s wreck in 1985...	2nd November 2011
coventrytelegraph.net	COVENTRY MARKS LINKS TO TITANIC ON 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF TRAGEDY A RANGE of events have been scheduled for Coventry to mark 100 years since the Titantic sank. The city-based Titanic Heritage Trust has put together a fascinating programme of talks and theatrical events at Blue Coat School, Stoke, to mark the anniversary of RMS Titanic’s tragic sinking in 1912. The five-month programme begins this month. Events include the poignant reflections of David Haisman – a local relative of Edith Brown, the Titanic’s oldest survivor – who himself served in the Merchant Navy and worked as look-out on ice fields across the North Atlantic....	1st November 2011
ie	TITANIC EXPLORER VISITS SHIP'S BIRTHPLACE Dr. Ballard, the world famous oceanographer who discovered Titanic, has visited the ship’s birthplace in the former Harland & Wolff Drawing Offices in Belfast. Dr. Ballard was in town as part of preparations for the centenary of Titanic’s loss next year and is providing unseen Titanic material for the new £97m Titanic Belfast visitor attraction....	1st November 2011
express.co.uk	MY GRANDFATHER TOOK TITANIC'S DEADLY SECRET TO THE GRAVE - EXPRESS.CO.UK MANY families have a secret, a skeleton that stays well and truly locked int he closet. City high-flier and novelist Louise Patten knows all about this kind of cloak and dagger concealment because for almost a century her own family has kept a secret of historical magnitude. Her story is not a tale of illegitimate heirs or ill gotten gains. Instead Louise, 57, who is married to former Conservative education secretary and life peer John Patten, claims to know what caused the Titanic to sink....	31st October 2011
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC PLAN SELLS FOR £30000 - BBC NEWS A rare Titanic first class deck plan belonging to a wealthy New York couple who drowned in the tragedy has sold at auction for £30,000. The deck plans were handed to the 324 first class passengers as they boarded the RMS Titanic at Southampton in 1912 to help them navigate the liner. Ida and Isidor Straus died side-by-side after Mrs Straus refused a place on a lifeboat to remain with her husband. ...	31st October 2011
Jamestown Sun	'TITANIC' MUSICAL AT JC Just as the RMS Titanic was the largest and grandest ship in its day, the Jamestown College production of “Titanic” the musical will also be very large. On Tuesday, a little more than a week before the show opens in DeNault Auditorium at the Reiland Fine Arts Center, construction crews were busy creating one of the more comprehensive sets to be used in the JC production. Mike McIntrye, director of the production and theater at JC, said the mammoth stage will have a massive 50-member cast to match...	27th October 2011
Wiltshire Gazette and Herald	A RARE LOT OF TITANIC ARTEFACTS GO ON SALE IN DEVIZES More rare artefacts connected with the sinking of SS Titanic will go on sale at Devizes auctioneers Henry Aldridge & Son on Saturday. Following the sale in May of a 32ft plan of the ship used at the public inquiry into the disaster, which fetched a record-breaking £220,000, a companion plan, also used at the inquiry, is expected to reach £40,000 to £60,000. This plan, created for the inquiry by the White Star Line, owners of the Titanic, portrays the mid section of the ship and one notation says “approximate mean draft at time of accident”. ...	27th October 2011
Hereford Times	TITANIC HONOUR AND GLORY - EXHIBITION AT LUDLOW ASSEMBLY ROOMS VOTED one of the top five exhibitions in the country by The Times, Titanic Honour and Glory has docked in Ludlow as part of its centenary tour. The brainchild of Sean Szmalc and Margot Corson, it is an exciting, awe-inspiring and evocative national touring exhibition, which features many rare and previously unseen artefacts from the liner’s passengers and crew, including some of the beautiful china dinner plates, which served the first meals aboard the Titanic. ...	27th October 2011
BBC News	TITANIC LETTER DISPLAYED IN CORK A message in a holy water bottle which was thrown overboard by a Titanic victim while the ship sank has now been donated to a heritage centre in Cork by his family. Jeremiah Burke, 19, from Glanmire in Cork was given the bottle at the quayside in Cobh by his mother before he set off for the US. As the Titanic sank in the early hours of 15 April, 1912, he threw the bottle and message into the sea. The bottle was washed ashore a year later in Dunkettle, only a few miles from his family home....	26th October 2011
Channel 4	FOUR ROOMS : CHANNEL FOUR : BE A PART OF IT! Talkback Thames Channel 4’s Hit Series Four Rooms is back and looking for more extraordinary items to feature in the second series....	25th October 2011
BBC News	SON IN STEP WITH TITANIC MEMORY The living links to the workers who built the Titanic are becoming fewer as time passes. But one got in touch with me after seeing my report on BBC Newsline about the joiners in County Londonderry who are building a replica of the Titanic's grand staircase. John Flynn's grandfather, also called John, was a joiner who worked on the original staircase. It was one of the most spectacular sights on board the most famous ship to sail from Belfast. ...	25th October 2011
wday.com	TITANIC AUCTION NETS $100570 - WDAY A collection of more than 100 items of Titanic memorabilia, including a rare letter written on the ship's stationery the day it sailed on its first and last voyage, sold for $100,570 Friday night. The collection, which had been estimated to sell for $50,000 to $75,000, was one of seven lots of Titanic material sold by Philip Weiss Auctions in Oceanside. It was purchased by a private collector who did not want to be identified. The price includes a 13 percent buyer's premium....	22nd October 2011
Montreal Gazette	TITANIC TITLES ANTICIPATE CENTENARY Publishers have already started releasing titles in anticipation of the 100th anniversary next year - the Titanic sank in April 1912, with a loss of 1490 lives - and these include books aimed at young readers....	22nd October 2011
canadaeast.com	GEOLOGIST TAKES ON TITANIC RESEARCH Steve Blasco, a Nova Scotia-based researcher, had spent countless hours beneath the waves during his career, exploring seascapes at depths never before experienced by human beings. But this was different. Nearly 4,000 metres below the surface of the frigid North Atlantic, 79 years after an iceberg appeared out of the mist cutting short the lives of 1,517 men, women and children, Blasco was about to see the most famous shipwreck in history. ...	21st October 2011
BBC News	TITANIC HERO HAROLD LOWE'S PLAQUE IS FUNDED BY COUNCIL Memorabilia from the Titanic will not now have to be sold off to pay for a plaque commemorating a hero of the disaster from Barmouth in Gwynedd. Records show Fifth Officer Harold Lowe was in the only lifeboat that went back to the sinking ship to rescue people from freezing waters in April 1912. The Titanic Trust gave the town council council a set of medals which were due to be auctioned for the plaque fund....	20th October 2011
Boston Globe	DIAGRAMS FROM TITANIC INQUEST TO BE AUCTIONED A British auctioneer is offering two diagrams of the ill-fated liner Titanic for sale on Oct. 29. The diagrams were used during the official inquest following the ship's sinking in 1912, auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said Wednesday. A 32.5-foot-long (9.9-meter-long) cutaway diagram of the ship's interior, also used at the inquest, fetched 220,000 pounds ($363,000) at an auction at in April by Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes in southwest England....	19th October 2011
shorenewstoday.com	LIFEBOAT BELIEVED TO BE FROM TITANIC ON DISPLAY STARTING SATURDAY - SHORE NEWS TODAY A lifeboat believed to be from the Titanic will be on exhibit at Silver Moon Antiques in the Shore Mall beginning Saturday, Oct. 22 to help raise funds for the Absecon Lighthouse. In December of 2007, Absecon Lighthouse came into possession of a donated Titanic exhibit, which included a Titanic-era original Harland and Wolff Lifeboat, circa 1909, believed to be one of the Titanic lifeboats....	19th October 2011
Daily Mail	TITANIC PICTURES FROM 1912: POIGNANT PHOTOS FROM THE AFTERMATH Astonishing unseen photographs of the aftermath of the Titanic disaster have emerged after 99 years. The black and white pictures show an iceberg at the site of the tragedy - and may even be the one that sunk the luxury liner. Another image shows two lifeboats packed full of survivors rowing for safety following the 1912 disaster in which 1,517 people died....	19th October 2011
syracuse.com	OSWEGO HISTORIAN TO TALK ABOUT PERSONALITIES OF THE TITANIC George DeMass, of Oswego, chaplain to the Titanic Historical Society, will present a talk titled “Titanic: 100 Years Later, A Personal Perspective: from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday Oct. 23 at the H. Lee White Marine Museum on West First Street Pier in Oswego. He will reflect on his experiences as chaplain of the Titanic Historical Society. DeMass spent time developing close ties to a number of survivors and the families of those who perished with the ship. During his presentation, he will speak about their personal stories. ...	18th October 2011
npr.org	'HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC,' AND SINK YOUR NAME J. Bruce Ismay probably shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as any of the true criminals of the 20th century, but for many years he may have been the most universally despised man in the Western world. Ismay, heir to the prominent British White Star Line shipping company, owned the Titanic, and he's the one who said it would be fine to put just 20 lifeboats on a ship that could hold 2,800 people. Why clutter the decks, he argued, when the ship itself is a lifeboat?...	15th October 2011
thisishampshire.net	FIRST CLASS TITANIC TIE TO TRAGEDY - THIS IS HAMPSHIRE.NET A Titanic deck plan owned by an elderly couple who were depicted in the hit movie lying in bed together as the ship sank is set to sell for £50,000. Ida and Isidor Straus drowned side by side in the disaster after she refused a place on a lifeboat to remain with her husband. ...	14th October 2011
Globe and Mail	LAST REMAINING CP STEAMSHIP COMING HOME TO CANADA The SS Keewatin, the last surviving Canadian Pacific steamship in the world, is coming home to Canada, more than 100 years after it was launched in 1907 at the height of the Edwardian era. The elegant ship, with its oak and mahogany dining room and stained-glass windows, ferried passengers and freight from Georgian Bay to Lake Superior for more than 50 years, until it was decommissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1965....	14th October 2011
Larne Today	TITANIC DRESS LOOKS SHIP-SHAPE WITH HELP FROM WELDER GRAEME A LARNE welder has spoken of his pride after being called upon to help create a unique dress inspired by one of Belfast’s most stunning buildings. Titanic Belfast, which will be the world’s largest visitor attraction based on the ill-fated ocean liner, commissioned the dress to celebrate the centenary of ship’s maiden voyage and the opening of the building next spring....	12th October 2011
moviefone.com	9 THINGS WE LEARNED WHILE WATCHING THE 'TITANIC' IN 3D EARLY FOOTAGE On Tuesday morning, eight separate scenes of 'Titanic' -- now converted to include the dimension of depth (scientists call this "3D") -- were screened for the press. Director James Cameron (who spoke one-on-one with Moviefone last night) was also in attendance to discuss what's in store for the public when we all head back to 'Titanic' in April. What's that? You're too cool to see 'Titanic'? Oh, come on, admit it: you're going. I'm going. We're all going to see 'Titanic' on the big screen again. Regardless, with Cameron in attendance -- and with eight finished 3D scenes to show -- here are the nine things learned while attending the 'Titanic' in 3D press conference. ...	11th October 2011
The Guardian	NORTHERN IRELAND LOOKS TO TITANIC FOR ECONOMIC BOOST The most famous ship to sink is being used to refloat Northern Ireland's flagging economy. On the banks of the river where the Titanic was constructed, a leisure and education project is almost complete. The Stormont government hopes it will attract 50,000 extra tourists a year. With its gleaming glass, curved shape and illuminated roof, the Titanic building resembles the Bilbao Guggenheim. Like the Basque country museum, the tourist centre on the Lagan represents a society moving on from ethnic conflict and terrorism....	10th October 2011
Fernie Free Press	A TITANIC STORY Hugh Brewster captures the tragedy of the famous ship in his novel, The Deadly Voyage, with historical accuracy and real-life drama. He uses his extensive knowledge of the Titanic, which he gathered while writing Inside the Titanic and 882 1/2 Amazing Answers To Your Questions About the Titanic, to create the novel. The Deadly Voyage is part of the popular I Am Canada series, which uses events in Canadian history as a backdrop to exciting adventures of daring young men. The book focuses on 14 year old Jamie Laidlaw, who has no idea that his world is about to turn up-side down, until he finds himself in the icy waters of the north Atlantic watching the “unsinkable” ship go down....	8th October 2011
guardian.co.tt	THE UNHEARD STORY OF AMY AND THE TITANIC - TRINIDAD GUARDIAN Amy Pollard was a Guyanese infant who lost her English mother Elizabeth, in Guyana, at the age of one. The year was 1872. Her father William Branch Pollard, was from Demerara, but his ancestors had migrated to, and lived continuously in Barbados from the early 1600’s. William’s father was Barbadian. The Pollards’ ancient origins were Cornwall, England. Amy’s maternal English aunt was Hannah, nee Blackley, the barren wife of the “prince of shipbuilders,” illustrious William Imrie. Along with his partner, a Belfast Irishman—Robert Ismay, many famous sea vessels, including the Titanic, came into being. ...	8th October 2011
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC DRESS THAT WOWED AT AWARDS BASH A dress commissioned to celebrate the centenary of the Titanic’s maiden voyage has wowed crowds at an awards ceremony in London. The eye-catching dress based on the iconic ship made its debut at the London Lifestyle Awards on Thursday. ...	8th October 2011
BBC News	VIDEO: RAISING A TITANIC STAIRCASE The best known ship to sail from Belfast had a famous set of steps inside. Anyone who has seen a film about the Titanic will remember the scenes around the grand staircase. Now Northern Ireland joiners are building a replica for the new Titanic visitor centre in Belfast. Chris Page's report begins with the exclusive pictures of the wreck on the Atlantic seabed filmed by BBC Newsline's Mike McKimm six years ago. ...	6th October 2011
New Zealand Herald	NEW TITANIC SERIES SET FOR UK TV Television bosses in the UK are to screen a four-part dramatisation of the Titanic disaster 100 years to the day since the doomed voyage. Network chiefs at ITV announced earlier this year they are planning to mark the centenary of the luxury liner's voyage......	5th October 2011
Standard Speaker	WOMAN'S MOTHER, UNCLE AND BROTHER WERE ON TITANIC Eighty-six-year-old Mae Thomas recalls the first time she shared a story about her mother and infant brother surviving the sinking of the Titanic. "I was 6 years old and I went to the school teacher and told her my mom was a survivor from the Titanic," Thomas said Friday at a dinner event in Drums. "I was in history class and my teacher didn't believe me." When school let out that day, Mae's teacher showed up at her Stanton Street home in Wilkes-Barre and asked Mae's mother if the story was true. "My mother told her, 'My daughter does not lie. I am a survivor,'" Mae said. ...	1st October 2011
digitalspy.com	'TITANIC: BLOOD & STEEL' Q&A: IT'S NOT ABOUT A SINKING It's the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic next spring, so it's not surprising that several new shows about the tragedy are in production. One of the most interesting looks like Titanic: Blood and Steel, which has an all-star cast and focuses on the building of the vessel rather than that fateful iceberg....	30th September 2011
Birmingham Mail	BIRMINGHAM EXHIBITION MARKS REGION'S LINKS WITH TITANIC Links with the legendary liner Titanic are being celebrated with an exhibition outlining the contribution by West Midlands’ craftsmen to the construction of the ill-fated ship. The two-day Bull Ring display, which is open today and tomorrow, showcases the work done in the region to supply parts to Belfast shipbuilder Harland & Wolff. A new visitor attraction is set to open in Northern Ireland next spring to mark the centenary of the ship’s maiden voyage....	30th September 2011
Regina Leader-Post	FROM THE WRECKAGE OF THE TITANIC Almost a century after the Titanic - at the time, the world's largest ship - sank after colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1,500 lives, the dramatic story continues to fascinate people around the world. Beginning Saturday, visitors to the Saskatchewan Science Centre will have an opportunity to journey back in time and take a poignant look at this iconic ship and its passengers....	30th September 2011
bizjournals.com	PREMIER EXHIBITIONS SPLITS, PURSUES STRATEGIC OPTIONS Premier Exhibitions said Thursday it will be divided into an exhibition management subsidiary and a content subsidiary called RMS Titanic Inc., which holds all of the company's rights to the Titanic assets and is the salvor-in-possession of the Titanic wreck site. ......	29th September 2011
The Irish Film Television Network	NETWORK IRELAND TELEVISION LAUNCHING 'TITANIC'' PROJECTS AT MIPCOM Titanic, Born in Belfast, is the story of the building of this magnificent vessel in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in that city. It also shows how the shadow of the failure that hung over that city, because of the Titanic disaster, has finally given way to a more positive mentality. The achievement of the people of Belfast in building such an engineering marvel is finally being recognised and celebrated in its hometown for the great accomplishment that it was. ...	28th September 2011
kristv.com	ODYSSEY MARINE FINDS MORE SUNKEN TREASURE OFF FLORIDA COAST The Garisoppa does not hold the same place in history that the Titanic holds, but it is of interest to Odyssey Marine and the British government. "It was a cargo ship, it was carrying lots of interesting things of, most interest to us and probably our shareholders, it was carrying a lot of silver, potentially seven million ounces of silver," Gordon says. Seven million ounces of silver worth an estimated $220-million....	28th September 2011
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	TITANIC SHOWPIECE TO RECREATE LINER'S TALE The temperature drops and the voices of survivors recorded 50 years ago recount harrowing tales of making it through one of the most infamous disasters of the last century. That is the desired effect of one of the galleries in the Titanic Belfast attraction which is set to open in time for the centenary of the Belfast-made liner. Giving a tour of the 93ft building, the same height as the ship, project manager Noel Molloy said that Titanic Belfast would recreate the Titanic story....	28th September 2011
irishtimes.com	TREASURE HUNTERS SAY IRISH WATERS HAVE VALUABLE WRECKS THE US marine exploration company which has located a British wartime shipwreck with £150 million worth of silver in the Atlantic has also been surveying southwest Irish waters where there are a number of "commodity" wrecks. The Naval Service has confirmed that it notified the company's research ship Odyssey Explorer some weeks ago that it should notify the Irish authorities of its activities. It said the Naval Service came across the vessel surveying some 25 miles west of the Blasket islands, in Co Kerry on August 2nd. Under international law, a ship undertaking scientific research should inform the relevant state, and should be licensed to tow a sidescan sonar in territorial waters....	28th September 2011
dailymail.co.uk	'SAFE ON THE CARPATHIA': AUCTION OF TELEGRAM SENT BY TITANIC SURVIVOR FROM RESCUE SHIP FOUR DAYS AFTER DISASTER A scribbled note written by a survivor of the Titanic to tell his family he was alive and well has been put up for sale. The telegram was sent from the rescue ship Carpathia on April 18, 1912 - four days after the liner Titanic sank - to reassure the sender's family. Scrawled in pencil and yellowed with age, it reads: '(To) William Mansfield, Washington St., Morristown, New Jersey....	27th September 2011
channelnewsasia.com	SINGAPORE UPS SECURITY FOR TITANIC ARTIFACT EXHIBITION The Titanic theft which happened in Copenhagen during the opening hours of the exhibit at Tivoli Park involved the disappearance of a necklace belonging to the Widener family, one of the richest families on board the Titanic in 1912......	27th September 2011
4ni.co.uk	WWI-ERA HMS CAROLINE STARS IN DOCUMENTARY An Irish filmmaker has been all at sea on board a warship that survived the Battle of Jutland. The ship was the star as Northern Visions premièred a movie on HMS Caroline - a World War I light cruiser that has been stationed in Belfast since 1924 - seeing WWII service and then being used as the base for the Royal Navy Reserve until its decommissioning. Originally anchored in Milewater Basin, but now residing in the Alexandra Dock, HMS Caroline is the maritime equivalent of a grade one listed building, and is the second oldest Royal Navy warship in existence, after Admiral Nelson's flagship, Victory....	26th September 2011
thisissurreytoday.co.uk	BOOK AIMS TO CLEAR GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF SINKING TITANIC THE great-granddaughter of the man who was at the helm of the Titanic when it sank has written a book she hopes will clear his name. Quartermaster Robert Hichens has gone down in history as the man who sank the "unsinkable" ship. He was at the wheel of the Titanic as she went to her doom and famously gave the "hard-a-starboard" command in a desperate attempt to steer away from the iceberg that would lead to the death of 1,500 people on April 15, 1912....	23rd September 2011
bbc.co.uk	GIANT GIRL PUPPET TO BE USED FOR LIVERPOOL TITANIC EVENT A giant puppet of a girl will lead three days of street theatre in Liverpool to commemorate the sinking of the Titanic. Sea Odyssey, from 20 to 22 April 2012, will mark the 100th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the liner, which was registered in Liverpool. The girl puppet was used in the 2006 Sultan's Elephant in London, which was seen by 1.5 million people....	22nd September 2011
clickliverpool.com	TITANIC TOUR OF LIVERPOOL LAUNCHED TO SAVE HISTORY A Blue Badge guide has launched a Liverpool Titanic tour as the former White Star Line headquarters on James Street is put up for sale. The Grade II listed building has stood empty for years and Philip Coppell, who is also campaigning to save Ringo Starr's Madryn Street home, fears the city's link with the ship could be lost....	22nd September 2011
onlineprnews.com	INCREDIBLE TITANIC ARCHIVE WILL CROSS THE BLOCK OCT. 21 BY PHILIP WEISS A historically significant, museum-quality archive of material pertaining to the doomed ocean liner the RMS Titanic will be offered on the first day of a three-day multi-estate sale planned for Oct. 21-23 by Philip Weiss Auctions....	21st September 2011
nzherald.co.nz	TITANIC WRECK TOURS OFFERED TO MARK DISASTER'S CENTENARY The Titanic at the docks of Southampton prior to its doomed maiden voyage in April 1912. Expand The Titanic at the docks of Southampton prior to its doomed maiden voyage in April 1912. If you can't quite afford the US$200,000 (NZ$243,962) ticket to space on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, how about US$59,680 to dive down to the Titanic, which lies 3810m below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean? The latest exotic expedition for the moneyed traveller is being organised for next year, the centenary of the Titanic disaster. Passengers will descend to the Titanic's hulk two-by-two, aboard a three-person Russian Mir submersible....	20th September 2011
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC NECKLACE STOLEN FROM SHOW It is believed the necklace belonged to first-class US passenger Eleanor Widener, who survived the 1912 sinking. More than 1500 passengers and crew died when the Titanic foundered in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg on its maiden voyage....	19th September 2011
eastbourneherald.co.uk	TITANIC PLAQUE CAMPAIGNER IS CHASING FUNDS A CAMPAIGN to restore a plaque commemorating the life of an Eastbourne-based musician who died aboard the Titanic is fast gathering pace. John Wesley Woodward played cello in the ship’s orchestra and was part of the outfit which famously played while the ship sank into the icy waters, claiming the lives of 1,517 people on April 15, 1912. And, with the 100th anniversary of the disaster fast approaching, Eastbourne man Peter Goldsmith is busy trying to gather funds to restore the seafront memorial....	19th September 2011
thisislancashire.co.uk	BLUE PLAQUE TRIBUTE TO CHORLEY'S HIGH-RANKING TITANIC SURVIVOR A BLUE PLAQUE has been unveiled on the gates of a high school to commemorate Lancashire man who was the highest-ranking survivor of the Titanic disaster. Charles Lightoller, the son of mill owners, grew up at Yarrow House, Chorley on the site later occupied Albany Science College . He was 38 at the time of the ship’s maiden voyage and was Second Officer. On the night of April 14, 1912, he commanded the last bridge watch before the ship’s collision with an iceberg. ...	14th September 2011
ie	NEW TITANIC BOOK TELLS HER STORY IN PHOTOGRAPHS Titanic In Photographs tells her full story, from the shipyards of Harland & Wolff and its early vessels, with the backdrop of the great race to build the biggest and best passenger liner, to the frenzy of excitement surrounding her launch. Looking at her officers and crew, as well as her stops at Cherbourg and Queenstown the photographs follow the story to its inevitable conclusion, considering the lifeboats, the presence of the Carpathia and the aftermath of the shattering disaster....	14th September 2011
net	SINKING OF TITANIC HITS CLOSE TO HOME FOR VILONIA PRIMARY SCHOOL CUSTODIAN Fourth-grade students at the Vilonia Primary School on Friday learned about Sophie Abraham Halaut, a Titanic survivor, from her great-great niece who works at the school. “We knew her as Aunt Sophie, the aunt who was on the Titanic,” Tricia Gill told the students, regarding Halaut, who died in 1976....	13th September 2011
techradar.com	JAMES CAMERON: TITANIC 3D CONVERSION IS MIND NUMBING James Cameron has told TechRadar that he is finding the process of converting Titanic into 3D "mind numbing" and has revealed the intricate detail that goes into retro-fitting a live action movie with 3D. Titanic 3D is to set sail 6 April 2012 to coincide with the 100 year anniversary of the infamous ship sinking....	12th September 2011
thestar.com	GETTING READY FOR 100 YEARS OF THE TITANIC In a graveyard in Halifax, I brushed the dead leaves from the wintered grave stone of John Clarke, the bass fiddle player from Liverpool, England, who played with the band while the Titanic sank at 2:20 a.m. on April 14, 1912. “How will the world remember the sinking of the Titanic?” I asked myself, and set off to find out....	9th September 2011
gigcity.ca	A BOATLOAD OF UNHAPPY MEMORIES IN TITANIC EXHIBIT There’s no other way to describe it: it’s a Titanic show. Telus World of Science will feed the public’s continuing morbid fascination with the world’s most famous ocean liner disaster, beginning Oct. 8, when Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition begins a limited engagement. It’s a touring show of 200 items from the legendary shipwreck. Titanic — which its engineer had bragged was unsinkable — struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912. More than 1,500 people died, notably due to an absence of adequate life rafts. That unsinkable confidence, it turns out, really was a downer....	8th September 2011
dudleynews.co.uk	RETURN FOR NETHERTON TITANIC ANCHOR DUDLEY councillors have given the thumbs up to the return of a piece of Netherton’s history. The replica lifesize Titanic anchor, which was made as part of last year’s Channel 4 documentary about the world’s most famous ship, will be heading back to Netherton for good, after members of the Development Control Committee agreed for a permanent plinth to be installed in the town’s centre at the meeting on August 30. ...	6th September 2011
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	TITANIC QUARTER: UNSINKABLE ADVENTURE Titanic Belfast will take each visitor on an interactive journey from Boomtown Belfast, through to Titanic Beneath, which will have live feeds to Professor Ballard’s expeditions to the wreckage and his other ongoing ocean explorations. It will encourage people to interpret the story for themselves. “The Titanic story really draws you in. It is essentially a human story about the people who built the ship and those passengers and crew who were on board. The main draw is the authenticity of Titanic Belfast. ...	6th September 2011
expressandstar.com	TITANIC ANCHOR REPLICA TO RETURN HOME AT LAST A replica of the Titanic anchor, forged in the Black Country almost a century ago, will take pride of place in its home town after councillors agreed to create a permanent monument to recognise the connection. Campaigners had fought to ensure that the 16-ton anchor would return from its temporary base at the Black Country Living Museum to Netherton. And members of Dudley Council’s development control committee voted to approve the plans for its return....	31st August 2011
bclocalnews.com	AUTHOR ENGAGES STUDENTS IN CANADA'S HISTORY Exploring the Titanic with his new-found friends, 14-year-old Jamie Laidlaw, has no idea that his world is about to turn upside down, until he finds himself in the icy waters of the north Atlantic watching the “unsinkable” ship go down. Hugh Brewster captures the tragedy of the Titanic in his latest historical novel, The Deadly Voyage, with historical accuracy and real-life drama. He uses his extensive knowledge of the Titanic, which he gathered while writing Inside the Titanic and 882 1/2 Amazing Answers To Your Questions About the Titanic, to create the novel....	30th August 2011
newsletter.co.uk	BEHIND THE SCENES AT OUR ICONIC TRIBUTE TO TITANIC - BELFAST NEWSLETTER It has been claimed there is no project currently under way in Britain, or indeed Europe, that can match up to Titanic Belfast in terms of scale or grandeur. LAURA MURPHY enjoys a tour of the iconic building in the heart of the city’s Titanic Quarter and draws her own conclusions ACCORDING to Noel Molloy, the man who is tasked with the mammoth responsibility of overseeing the Titanic Belfast project, once you come to visit the finished exhibition, you’ll be there “for anywhere between two hours and two days - literally.” And having been fortunate enough to get a sneak preview of the work in progress at Titanic Quarter, I can confirm he isn’t lying....	30th August 2011
expressandstar.com	CAMPAIGN TO TAKE CAPTAIN'S STATUE 'HOME' A statue of the captain of the ill-fated Titanic could be moved to his home city almost 100 years after being rejected by his townsfolk. Captain Edward John Smith’s statue was put up in Beacon Park, Lichfield, in 1914 because Stoke-on-Trent refused it. They did not wish to be associated with the disastrous liner. A campaign has now been started to get the bronze statue moved to Captain Smith’s home town of Hanley. But Lichfield council bosses want to keep it....	30th August 2011
	WHAT REALLY SANK THE LUSITANIA NYI, the following lot is among the highlights in Swann's Sept 15 auction of the Eric C. Caren Collection: Sale 2253 Lot 309 WHAT REALLY SANK THE LUSITANIA? (STEAMSHIPS.) John Brown ...	30th August 2011
wctv.tv	TITANIC EXHIBIT SAILS TO TALLAHASSEE - SLIDE SHOW - WCTV Artifacts from the Titanic were installed at the Mary Brogan Museum today. The iconic luxury ship sank after colliding with an iceberg on April 15, 1912. Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition will have more than 100 artifacts conserved from the Ship’s debris field will be showcased. Click here to find out more! The Titanic exhibit opens on September 2nd....	29th August 2011
pendletoday.co.uk	MP VERY IMPRESSED BY NEW TITANIC MUSEUM PENDLE’s latest attraction - the Titanic In Lancashire Museum - is now open to the public and has had a visit from the borough’s MP, Mr Andrew Stephenson. The museum is based in the Parish Rooms next to St Bartholomew’s Church in Church Street, Colne. Mr Stephenson was very impressed by his visit and said: “The Titanic In Lancashire Museum is a fascinating collection of both historical artefacts and the numerous links between our area and the Titanic....	28th August 2011
lisburntoday.co.uk	STRICTLY MORSE CODE FOR DANCING JUDGE LEN STRICTLY Come Dancing judge Len Goodman has paid a visit to Lisburn to learn all about Morse Code for a new documentary. Len, who is well known for his appearances on the hit BBC1 series, is currently filming a three part documentary to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. As part of the documentary, entitled ‘Titanic and Me’, Len wanted to learn all he could about Morse Code and how the radio operators on the Titanic made use of it....	28th August 2011
gamepro.com	OMFG REVIEW: DIVE TO THE TITANIC - GAMEPRO.COM McKinley says he would rather have his "organs ripped out with a rusty fork" and "burn to death in a fire" than be forced to play Dive to the Titanic again. After two weeks, his overdue review finally floats to the surface....	26th August 2011
info	PYEROY WINS TITANIC CONTRACT SS Nomadic was a steamship belonging to the White Star Line, launched on 25 April 1911 in Belfast A Gateshead-based industrial services firm has won a six-figure contract to support the refurbishment of the vessel used to ferry passengers out to RMS Titanic as she lay anchored off the port of Cherbourg on her ill-fated maiden voyage. The 1,273 ton SS Nomadic steamship, used by the White Star Line as a tender for the liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, has returned to the Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast to undergo a £2 million restoration 100 years after she was constructed there....	26th August 2011
windycitymediagroup.com	HISTORIC IDEAS FOR THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TITANIC Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the sailing of Titanic's maiden voyage. Several destinations, tour operators and exhibition companies are getting ready. For the real deal, visit Halifax, Nova Scotia. Halifax has a rich maritime history due to its closeness to the sea and as a safe harbor to ships coming from Europe. It may come as a surprise to many that Halifax played a significant role in the recovery effort after the sinking of the Titanic. ...	25th August 2011
wired.com	AUG. 23, 1899: FIRST SHIP-TO-SHORE SIGNAL TO A U.S. STATION 1899: The first ship-to-shore wireless message in U.S. history is sent by Lightship No. 70 to a coastal receiving station at the Cliff House in San Francisco. “Sherman is sighted,” the message said, referring to the troopship Sherman, which was returning a San Francisco regiment from the battlefields of the Spanish-American War. It marked the first use outside England of this technology, still in its infancy....	23rd August 2011
irishemigrant.com	BELFAST TRIP A TITANIC-SIZED EYE-OPENER - THE NEW YORK IRISH EMGIRANT I’m standing in the middle of an ever-growing crowd of people, a sense of great excitement heightening all around me. All of a sudden we are thrown back in time, to May 31, 1911. I can actually feel what it must have been like for the folks whose lives played out here at this famous shipyard - Harland and Wolff, birthplace of the Titanic and, at the time, the largest shipbuilding company in the world. ... A certain sense of expectation continues as Belfast readies itself for its bow on the world stage come April 15, 2012, when it will commemorate the hundredth anniversary of that unforgettable human tragedy: the sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage to New York. Never ready to forget the lives lost, the lives of those who built Titanic, and how it all played out in history, Belfast is hard at work readying itself for the event....	23rd August 2011
derryjournal.com	BOOK CLUB FOR CHILDREN GETS A TITANIC START A thrilling read for older children, ‘Spirit of the Titanic’ follows the infamous journey and demise of the Titanic through the eyes of Sam, a fifteen year-old who plunges to his death whilst building his beloved Titanic. Now, as the greatest ship the world has ever seen, crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Sam finds himself on board – as a ghost. His spirit roams the ship, from the glamour of first class to the party atmosphere of third class. Sam shares the excitement of Jim, Isobel and their children - on their way to a new life in America....	23rd August 2011
royalgazette.com	MARIE CELESTIA WRECK OFFERS UP CARGO OF PERFUME - ROYAL GAZETTE Perfume bottles are the latest treasure to have been recovered from Bermuda wreck Marie Celestia. Phillippe Rouja, conservator of historic wrecks, announced the discovery of the bottles this week. Five unopened bottles of wine were found stashed in the bow of the Marie Celestia this past June. UK perfume historian David Pybus, who has uncovered perfume from the Titanic, has begun his analysis on the bottle's contents. Early research has revealed that the bottle contains a sample from a posh London perfumery that has since gone out of business......	22nd August 2011
guardian.co.uk	WOULD YOU GO ON THIS HOLIDAY? - THE GUARDIAN A Titanic Memorial Cruise, anyone? Or perhaps a night on a farm – staying in one of its pig houses? Here's our pick of unusual, desperate and downright weird tourism marketing gimmicks...	22nd August 2011
guelphmercury.com	HAUNTED HALIFAX HALIFAX — With its long history of disasters and shipwrecks, there is an air of tragedy that hangs over Halifax, not unlike the dense fog that often rolls in from its harbour. Though the port city has long established itself as a down-home, good-time burg — a place to unwind to a toe-tapping Celtic tune and a dram of whisky — those thirsty for spirits of the paranormal kind won’t be disappointed....	19th August 2011
com	JUDGE: SALVAGE FIRM HAS TITLE TO TITANIC ARTIFACTS A federal judge on Monday granted a company title to fine china, ship fittings and other artifacts worth about $110 million that it recovered from the Titanic in a half-dozen perilous expeditions to the famous shipwreck. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith in Norfolk issued the order a little over a year after ruling that RMS Titanic was entitled to full compensation for the roughly 5,900 artifacts. In her August 2010 ruling, Smith postponed deciding whether to give RMS title to the artifacts or sell them and turn the proceeds over to the company....	15th August 2011
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	STRICTLY JUDGE SWAPS SEQUINS FOR TITANIC DOCUMENTARY Strictly Come Dancing head judge Len Goodman has been on a visit to Belfast to celebrate a very personal interest in the Titanic ahead of the 100th anniversary of its sinking. Next spring the BBC will be airing a new three-part documentary about the Belfast-made ship, called The Titanic And Me, which looks at the human legacy of the disaster via the descendants of those who lost their lives, and the presenter is Len Goodman, Strictly’s popular voice of reason....	15th August 2011
thisishampshire.net	£450000 CONTRACT TO PROMOTE SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC-THEMED MUSEUM DOZENS of firms are likely to compete for a contract worth up to £450,000 to promote Southampton’s flagship Titanic-themed museum. City leisure chiefs says 45 firms, many local, have expressed an interest in the £90,000-a-year contract to market the £15m Sea City attraction, which is due to open in April next year. ...	15th August 2011
New Mexican	BEMIS: LATEST LUSITANIA EXPEDITION WAS 'VERY USEFUL' Gregg Bemis arrived home to Santa Fe on Thursday night after spending two weeks off the southern coast of Ireland, where he explored the ruins of a ship sunk in the prelude to World War I. Bemis, a 79-year-old venture capitalist, estimated he has taken 30 trips to the area since he became interested in the Lusitania in 1969. In 1982, he became the sole owner of the wreck 300 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic ocean, about 12 miles south of County Cork in Irish territorial waters. ...	14th August 2011
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk	COLNE TITANIC MUSUEM WANTS TO ATTRACT 100000 VISITORS A NEW museum commemorating the RMS Titanic is hoping to attract around 100,000 visitors in the run up to the centenary of when the ship sank. Maritime enthusiast Nigel Hampson, 42, has brought the Titanic and her maiden voyage to life as he opened the Titanic in Lancashire Museum, in the old Colne Grammar School, off Albert Road, Colne on Wednesday. Nigel, of Humphrey Street, Brierfield is hoping to attract visitors from around the world with his display remembering the 71 Lancashire people who were on board the doomed vessel - including Wallace Hartley, the ship’s famous band leader from Colne. ...	14th August 2011
bleedingcool.com	WE'VE HAD A LOOK AT TITANIC 3D Today was the first day of Big Screen at the O2 and, amongst the trailers and the clips, was a section from Twentieth Century Fox on next year’s biggest re-release, Titanic. As everyone and his dog must know, Titanic was originally the super smash of 1997 but, to coincide with the centenary of the sinking of the ship next year, Fox and James Cameron are re-releasing the film, with every scene freshly painted in state of the art 3D. On Friday, some Big Screeners were treated to a selection of completed scenes in full 3D. ...	13th August 2011
guardian.co.uk	HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC, OR THE SINKING OF J BRUCE ISMAY BY FRANCES WILSON ... - THE GUARDIAN In the end, the subject of this fascinating book is not just historical or biographical uncertainty, but psychological and moral ambiguity. Ismay became a kind of modern ancient mariner, endlessly trying to explain himself, but his solipsism meant that the 1,500 people who died on the Titanic collapsed into the intractable problem of his disappointment in himself. As Conrad's narrator Marlow finally realises at the end of Lord Jim's story: "Nobody, nobody is good enough."...	12th August 2011
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC WEDDING A wedding themed on the Titanic might not be thought to be the best of omens for the future, but Northern Ireland tourism chiefs are hoping plenty of young couples will think otherwise. The Titanic Suite of Belfast's new £97m visitor attraction dedicated to the doomed liner has started taking bookings ahead of its opening next year. The visitor attraction, which is due to open in eight months, is in the same spot where the famous ship was built by Harland and Wolff 100 years ago....	12th August 2011
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	COUPLES OFFERED TITANIC WEDDING A Titanic-themed wedding might not provide the ideal metaphor for a plain-sailing future together, but that is unlikely to discourage couples reserving Northern Ireland's latest venue for their big day. The Titanic Suite perched high in the roof of a new £100 million visitor attraction in Belfast dedicated to the doomed liner has started taking bookings ahead of its opening next year. The fifth and sixth floors of the centre replicate the opulent surrounds of the ship's first class banqueting room, complete with the famous sweeping grand staircase....	11th August 2011
journalpioneer.com	TITANIC DINNER THEATRE CRUISING INTO SUMMERSIDE The touring production of “Titanic: The Fated Voyage” will be docking in Summerside in September on its Maritime tour. The Classic Dinner Theatre Productions’ Summerside show will run from Sept. 20 to Oct. 1 at Shipyard Market. “Titanic – The Fated Voyage” is a three act dramatic production performed by an eight-person cast. The production features musical performances consisting of folk, ragtime jazz and other popular music from Titanic’s era. The show is set in the first class lounge of Titanic on April 14, 1912....	11th August 2011
iftn.ie	'SAVING THE TITANIC' DOCU-DRAMA WILL AIR APRIL 2012 The Irish-German ‘Saving the Titanic’ co-production will begin filming this month in Kempton Steam Museum, London and Ardmore Studios. Directed by Maurice Sweeney and produced by Tile Films’ Stephen Rooke, the 1x90/2x52 minute feature will be broadcast on RTÉ in April 2012. ...	10th August 2011
eastbourneherald.co.uk	PLEA TO RESTORE TITANIC PLAQUE A PLAQUE commemorating the life of an Eastbourne-based musician who died aboard the Titanic needs replacing before next year’s 100th anniversary of the ship’s ill-fated maiden voyage. John Wesley Woodward played cello in the ship’s orchestra and was part of the outfit which famously played while the ship sank into the icy waters – waters which claimed the lives of 1,517 people that April 15 night back in 1912....	10th August 2011
thegeorgian.ca	STEPHENVILLE CROSSING RESIDENT BUILDS REPLICA OF FAMOUS SHIP Karl McFatridge isn’t one to stay idle for very long. This Stephenville Crossing resident kept himself active through the past several months by building a replica of the Titanic, the passenger liner that famously struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland and sank in 1912. “I started last September and I finished it about two weeks ago,” said Karl. “Starting off is the worst – the keel is a lot of work. But it comes up slowly and it’s a good pastime.”...	8th August 2011
independent.ie	COMMEMORATIVE TITANIC CRUISE TO DOCK AT COBH, 100 YEARS ON Preparations are continuing in Cobh, Co Cork, to welcome a 100th anniversary commemorative cruise retracing the voyage of the ill-fated Titanic in 1912. The cruise, which has been completely sold out, will depart from Southampton on April 8 next year with 1,300 passengers from 22 different countries, including 35 from Ireland....	7th August 2011
suite101.com	ROBERT BALLARD VOYAGING BACK TO RMS TITANIC TO PHOTOGRAPH STERN Robert Ballard, the man who found the RMS Titanic in 1985, is going back to the site. He'll be taking photos for the world's largest Titanic attraction. For the first time since 2004 the explorer who discovered the wreckage of the RMS Titanic in 1985 is returning to her grave to view and photograph her. Robert Ballard, the noted American oceanographer, is going back to the site of the ship in the North Atlantic to take photos of the stern section for a new attraction being built in Belfast....	7th August 2011
kentnews.co.uk	UNSEEN ARTEFACTS FROM THE TITANIC ON SHOW AT DOCKYARD Rare and unseen artefacts salvaged from the Titanic are being displayed in a moving exhibition at Chatham’s Historic Dockyard. Titanic Honour and Glory, voted as one of the top five exhibitions in the country, features emotive objects belonging to passengers and crew who were onboard the doomed vessel....	6th August 2011
dnaindia.com	MAN WHO BUILT TITANIC RAN AWAY AS IT SANK He said he had been helping with the rowing, but this seems unlikely: not only was he facing the wrong way, but he was in no state to do anything physical. When he left the sinking ship, Ismay stepped into a bottomless well. As I explain in How to Survive the Titanic: the Sinking of J Bruce Ismay, the president's hair apparently turned white overnight, and those on the rescue ship, the Carpathia, said that his body in the lifeboat was as stiff and lifeless as a marble statue....	5th August 2011
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	BALLARD RETURNS TO TITANIC The man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic is to return to its final resting place to capture new images of the ship for the £100m visitor attraction in Belfast. Dr Robert Ballard will journey two-and-a-half miles to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean next month to film the mangled stern section, which broke off from the rest of the liner as she sank on her maiden voyage in 1912....	4th August 2011
timesandstar.co.uk	CHILDREN INVESTIGATE TITANIC LINKS IN MARYPORT A TITANIC project in Maryport will end with a premier film show at the town’s Wave Centre in October. Thirty-five Maryport children spent last week exploring the town’s maritime heritage and its links to the Titanic through Thomas Ismay, who was born in Maryport and founded the White Star line of which the Titanic was part. The children interviewed experts on the subject like John Whitwell, Cliff Ismay and volunteers at the Maryport Maritime Museum....	4th August 2011
delconewsnetwork.com	STELLAR 'TITANIC' SAILS INTO UPPER DARBY SUMMER STAGE Compelling stories of the ship’s ill-fated passengers and crew mixes excitement and sorrow in the stellar production of “Titanic,” Upper Darby Summer Stage’s Mainstage show. As guests entered the theater, each was given a boarding pass which read, “Permission granted to come aboard White Star Line’s R.M.S. Titanic.” Characters from the show were featured on the back of each pass. The show, which opened on Broadway in 1997, won five Tony Awards including one for Best Musical that year. Next April 15 marks the 100th anniversary of the tragedy, where 1,517 people died....	4th August 2011
telegraph.co.uk	J BRUCE ISMAY: DOOMED THE MOMENT HE JUMPED SHIP The man who built the Titanic lived for ever in disgrace after fleeing th the sinking ship....	3rd August 2011
yesweekly.com	STORIES FROM THE TITANIC Imagine, as I am now, that my name is Mr. Wallace Henry Hartley, 33, of Dewsbury, England, a violinist and bandleader. The year is 1912, and a couple days earlier I was chosen to lead the band on the brand new showpiece of the White Star cruise line: the RMS Titanic. Hartley is the name on my boarding pass, handed to me at the entrance to the new Titanic exhibition at the Greensboro Natural Science Center, which runs through Nov. 27 — everybody gets one, embossed with an actual name of one of the 1,316 passengers on board for the vessel’s maiden voyage....	3rd August 2011
longfordleader.ie	TITANIC MEMORIAL PLANNED FOR KILLOE Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. On that fateful day – Monday, April 15, 1912 – James Farrell (26), Killoe, perished. Plans are now in place in the north Longford parish to erect a memorial to Farrell, whose heroism on the day the ship sank features regularly in films and TV shows based on the tragedy. Local man John Devaney has been researching the life and times of James Farrell for the past few years and he initiated the memorial plan. ...	3rd August 2011
mirror.co.uk	TITANIC VOYAGES SELLING OUT A cruise on Fred Olsen's Balmoral, re-tracing Titanic's route, has been sold out for months, but places are still available on board Azamara Journey which is due to leave from New York on April 10 and will rendezvous with Balmoral at the wreck site ......	3rd August 2011
bbc.co.uk	£97M TITANIC BELFAST ATTRACTION TAKES SHAPE BBC Northern Ireland has been given a preview tour of the new £97m Titanic Belfast building. The visitor attraction is due to open in eight months. The building is in the same spot where the famous ship was built by Belfast shipbuilder Harland and Wolff......	3rd August 2011
bbc.co.uk	'BEARING LOST HONOUR' ON THE TITANIC A new book has cast some light on the story of J Bruce Ismay, the owner of the Titanic who sailed to safety with women and children when it hit an iceberg, leaving other men to go down with the ship. Frances Wilson, author of How to Survive the Titanic ......	2nd August 2011
bymnews.com	NEW PACKAGES FOR TITANIC MEMORIAL CRUISE GO ON SALE With just over eight months to go until the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, more than 1309 passengers from all over the world are preparing to set sail on a replication of the fateful voyage. The original cruise leaving from Southampton is ......	2nd August 2011
scientificcomputing.com	TITANIC EXPLORER DETAILS NEW DEEP-SEA JOURNEY Oceanographer Robert Ballard, best known for discovering the Titanic wreck, has new plans to plumb the depths of the seas. Ballard said on July 28, 2011 that his latest deep-sea venture will send crews combing through the Black, Aegean and Mediterranean seas for artifacts from ship wrecks and ancient civilizations. His research vessel, the E/V Nautilus, set out from a port in Turkey last week on a four-month mission that will use four remote-operated vehicles and sonar technology to explore lost cities, as well as hydrothermal vents and undersea volcanoes....	2nd August 2011
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	HEADSTONE FOR TITANIC TEEN - 100 YEARS ON - BELFAST TELEGRAPH A teenager thought to have been the first victim of the Titanic has finally been given a headstone on his grave - more than 100 years after his death. Fifteen-year-old Samuel Scott fractured his skull while working on the ship in 1910 ......	1st August 2011
liverpoolecho.co.uk	TELESCOPE BELONGING TO TITANIC CAPTAIN FAILS TO SELL - LIVERPOOL ECHO Chief among the items going under the hammer at the Cato Crane auction house was a telescope which belonged to the captain of the Titanic, Edward Smith. He used it while serving on board the sister ship to the Titanic, ......	29th July 2011
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC TEENAGER SAMUEL SCOTT GETS HEADSTONE - BBC NEWS A teenager thought to have been the first victim of the Titanic is finally to get a gravestone. Samuel Scott, 15, fractured his skull whilst working on the ship in 1910. His body has since lain in an unmarked grave in Belfast City Cemetery......	29th July 2011
thewesterlysun.com	FROM MYSTIC TO THE MEDITERRANEAN Best known as the man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, Ballard is also the founder and president of the Sea Research Foundation's Institute for Exploration. He visited the aquarium Thursday to kick off the new voyage of the Nautilus and to boldly go where no one has gone before......	28th July 2011
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	GRAVESTONE FOR TITANIC FALL BOY - BELFAST TELEGRAPH The forgotten teenager who plunged to his death while building the Titanic is to get a gravestone at last. Samuel Scott, 15, was the first person connected with the tragic vessel to die after he fell on the construction site. His body has lain in an unmarked grave in Belfast City Cemetery but a new headstone will be unveiled on Saturday....	26th July 2011
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	NOMADIC WILL MISS THE BOAT FOR TITANIC CENTENARY - BELFAST TELEGRAPH A total of more than £7m is being spent on its restoration, but even with the latest £3.2m cash boost, the SS Nomadic will not be completed in time to capitalise on next year's Titanic centenary celebrations....	26th July 2011
dailymail.co.uk	TITANIC TRAIL: VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY IN BELFAST - DAILY MAIL We were on the Titanic Walking Tour and had arrived at the spot where the most celebrated ship in the world was designed. 'This,' as Chris put it, 'is where the Titanic dream began.' ...	25th July 2011
suite101.com	RMS TITANIC: FAMOUS REPLICA OF LINER TO STAR IN 3D TITANIC - SUITE101.COM The replica of the famed, doomed, liner Titanic is going on a voyage. For 5 years part of a museum exhibit, it soon will be back working, on a 3D Titanic. Read more at Suite101: RMS Titanic: Famous Replica of Liner to Star in 3D Titanic...	22nd July 2011
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	ALL'S SHIPSHAPE IN JOHN'S BOOK OF TITANIC FACTS - BELFAST TELEGRAPH John White’s new book, The RMS Titanic Miscellany, contains everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the world’s most famous ship, from facts and figures to biographies and urban myths surrounding the ill-fated voyage. John is not new to the specific art of writing fact books — with over 30 sports books to his name, he could be called something of an expert at the genre — but this book is certainly different to his usual fare....	21st July 2011
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	CELEBRATIONS LOOK SET TO SPARK A TITANIC £40M BOOST FOR TOURISM - BELFAST TELEGRAPH Year long Titanic celebration events are expected to help generate an extra £40m for the economy in 2012. The Business Barometer survey by Close Invoice Finance found around 31% of Northern Ireland companies expect the year-long ......	18th July 2011
getsurrey.co.uk	LOTTERY GRANT AWARDED TO TITANIC MEMORIAL - GET SURREY A MEMORIAL built in tribute to Godalming's Titanic hero will be restored in time for the centenary commemoration of the ship's sinking next year. ...	13th July 2011
9news.com	MOLLY BROWN'S 144TH BIRTHDAY JUBILEE - 9NEWS.COM This Sunday, a family-friendly birthday bash is planned for the Denver icon and Titanic survivor at her namesake house and museum on Pennsylvania Street. Molly Brown has been the subject of many books, movies and stage productions, ......	12th July 2011
shieldsgazette.com	WAS BARE HULL TITANIC'S SISTER SHIP? - SHIELDS GAZETTE Shields GazetteWas bare hull Titanic's sister ship?Shields GazetteMuch more likely, it turns out, is the suggestion by readers Dennis Maccoy, Jim Allen and Ray Collins, was that what we were actually looking at was the sad hulk of the great ocean liner Olympic, sister ship of the Titanic. She's seen her entering the ......	12th July 2011
Quad City Times	BIG CROWDS TAKE LAST TOUR OF PUTNAM TITANIC EXHIBIT Ten-year-old Alex Gross of Moline puts his hand on a block of ice meant to simulate the iceberg that sank the Titanic. Alex and his mother, Juliet Hunt, were among the last group of people to see the Titanic artifacts exhibit that closed Sunday......	11th July 2011
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC HERO MEMORIAL IN GODALMING TO BE RESTORED A memorial to the chief telegraphist on the Titanic is to be restored in time for the centenary of the sinking of the ship on its maiden voyage in 1912. Jack Phillips, who was born in Godalming, Surrey stayed at his post as the ship went down, sending messages to the Carpathia to rescue survivors. Phillips Memorial Park, in Godalming, is to receive £335,000 from the National Lottery for the restoration....	11th July 2011
worldcrunch.com	ABOARD A SUBMARINE, EXPLORING LAKE GENEVA'S OWN FORGOTTEN LITTLE TITANIC - WORLDCRUNCH A Russian submarine provides a rare expedition to the bottom of Switzerland’s largest lake to view the wreck of a 19th century lake steamer, and a peek into a forgotten tragedy....	8th July 2011
clickliverpool.com	RELATIVE DISCOVERS TITANIC CAPTAIN'S TELESCOPE IN THE ATTIC A telescope that belonged to the captain of the Titanic has been found lying in a dusty old attic. The brass eyepiece, kept in an old whisky bottle box, bears the name "Edward John Smith" who was the master of the ill-fated ocean liner that sank in 1912. It also carries an engraved image of the Titanic's sister ship - RMS Olympic - which Smith commanded for ten months. The three-foot long spyglass was identified by auctioneer John Crane after he was invited to value artefacts belonging to a distant relative of Captain Smith....	8th July 2011
com	HOW THE TITANIC DISASTER PUSHED UNCLE SAM TO "RULE THE AIR" - ARS TECHNICA The Times reported that it had learned from the Marconi company's Newfoundland station that the world's biggest ocean liner, the Titanic, had hit an iceberg en route from Southhampton, England. But not to worry, the newspaper assured its readers. ......	7th July 2011
ludlowadvertiser.co.uk	MAJOR EXHIBITION ABOUT THE TITANIC TO BE STAGED AT LUDLOW ASSEMBLY ROOMS LUDLOW Assembly Rooms' entertainment for the autumn season will include a major exhibition about ill-fated liner the Titanic. 'It's a fantastic exhibition which has been attracting huge interest and visitor numbers wherever it's toured'...	7th July 2011
burnleycitizen.co.uk	TITANIC MEMORIES FLOWER AGAIN IN COLNE A model of the Titanic set within a floral display has been unveiled in Colne town centre. The model of the Titanic has been placed in the flower bed near the bust of the real ship's bandleader, Wallace Hartley, in Colne. ...	5th July 2011
businessinsider.com	WATCH WITH PIECES FROM THE TITANIC SHIP ... an idea he settled on was the most famous sunken ship ever, the Titanic. He imagined a collection called the Titanic-DNA. A steampunkish watch that was said to contain parts from the Titanic. Some people were shocked by the idea, and others thought ......	4th July 2011
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	THROUGH HELL ANDHIGH WATER There's no shortage of literature commemorating the launch of the ill-fated Titanic 100 years ago. But you should make room on your bookshelf for this distinct and evocative account, writes Michael Wolsey The launch of the Titanic 100 years ago was the high-point of Belfast's shipbuilding industry. Harland -amp; Wolff created not only the biggest passenger liner the world had ever seen but a ship more glamorous, more hyped, than any before or since. Sadly, it was downhill ever after. The industry's decline has been slow, a graph of troughs and peaks, but the troughs were much steeper than the peaks and now, for all intents and purposes, it is gone. ...	3rd July 2011
opodo.co.uk	BELFAST EXHIBITION TELLS STORY OF THE TITANIC - OPODO Belfast exhibition tells story of the TitanicOpodoPeople with an interest in the story of the Titanic can pay a visit to Belfast this year to see a new exhibition. TITANICa: The Exhibition is currently showing at the Ulster Transport Museum, which is located seven miles east of Belfast city centre. ......	1st July 2011
mirror.co.uk	ITV AUDIENCE TO SEE THE TITANIC SINK FOUR TIMES AS JULIAN FELLOWES RECREATES ... - MIRROR.CO.UK THE Titanic is to sink FOUR times in a new £8million ITV drama to mark the centenary of the epic disaster. Emotional scenes showing the liner going down on her maiden voyage will appear in each of the four hour-long instalments – seen from the perspectives of different characters. Writer Julian Fellowes has devised plots for a huge range of passengers and crew. Speaking from the lavish set in Hungary, Fellowes said that he and producer Nigel Stafford-Clark wanted a fresh approach....	1st July 2011
kentonline.co.uk	TITANIC EXHIBITION COMES TO KENT - KENT ONLINE Titanic exhibition comes to KentKent OnlineA forgotten teddy bear and gold pocket watch which stopped at the exact time the boat Titanic sank are just a few of the items on display in Kent today. The exhibition was voted one of the top five touring shows in the country and ......	1st July 2011
telegraph.co.uk	TITANIC IMAGES NEVER SEEN BEFORE RELEASED New images of the Titanic were released on Thursday, showing dramatic views of the rusting hulk and the ghostly images of the sea floor where the ship sank almost a century ago....	1st July 2011
sthelensstar.co.uk	PUPILS SAIL BACK IN TIME WITH TITANIC SHIP MODELS WILLOW Tree pupils set sail on a special mission to build models of the Titanic, and astonished teachers upon their return. The Sutton Leach Y2 pupils were given the task as part of a larger project on the doomed cruise-liner, whose centenary is this year. 25 models made it back to the classroom, the largest of which was about a metre long, the smallest a foot. Most were made of cardboard, but one was made from wood, and the largest model made creative use of CDs as portholes....	30th June 2011
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC EXHIBITION COMES TO CHATHAM HISTORIC DOCKYARD sThe Titanic Honour & Glory exhibition opens in Chatham for the 100th anniversary of the ship's launch. It includes Titanic and White Star Line artefacts. ...	30th June 2011
com	JAMES CAMERON SHOWS FIRST FOOTAGE OF TITANIC 3D AT CINEEUROPE James Cameron likes 3D. He spent years developing/inventing cameras in order to facilitate his vision for his first film since 1997’s box-office monster Titanic. That follow-up was Avatar and it toppled Titanic as the highest grossing film ever. Leading up to and following the release of Avatar, Cameron was everywhere trumpeting 3D as the most important thing for movies in the history of things. The 3D trend caught on, and now Cameron is back with that other worldwide hit Titanic, now in 3D....	29th June 2011
National Geographic	TITANIC INTERACTIVE TIMELINE BRINGS HISTORY OF THE TITANIC TO LIFE Building Titanic: An Interactive Timeline When RMS Titanic was completed, she was the biggest man-made moving object on the planet. It would take thousands of Harland & Wolff shipbuilders in Belfast, Northern Ireland three years to construct her. When Titanic sailed her maiden voyage on April 10, 1912, she was hailed ‘the new wonder of the world’ — she was the largest and most luxuriously appointed ship the world had ever seen. Now you can experience the incredible history of one of mankind's most remarkable feats of engineering. Travel through time to watch Titanic come to life, and don't forget to stop at key milestones along to way to explore the many fascinating stories behind this enduring marvel....	23rd June 2011
culture24.org.uk	CURATOR'S CHOICE: WILLIAM BLAIR ON A SIGNED PHOTO OF A TITANIC PASSENGER IN ULSTER - CULTURE24 William Blair, Head of Human History for National Museums Northern Ireland, talks about his favourite object – a signed photo of a third-class passenger on the Titanic. “My favourite object is a poignant, signed photograph of a third class passenger. It takes you to the heart of the tragedy of Titanic. ...	20th June 2011
expressandstar.com	TITANIC CUTLERY RESURFACES TO MARK 100TH ANNIVERSARY Titanic cutlery resurfaces to mark 100th anniversary Thursday 16th June 2011, 11:30AM BST. Titanic cutlery resurfaces to mark 100th anniversary A Lichfield firm has produced a 100th anniversary replica of the cutlery it created for the doomed liner Titanic. To commemorate the centenary of the Titanic’s fateful maiden voyage, Arthur Price of England has recreated the Panel Reed cutlery that was used in the first class accommodation. Each knife features the famous logo of the ship owner, White Star Line, on its blade – just as the original set did. In April 1912, A. Price & Co. Ltd, as the company was then known, was based in a small factory at Conybere Street, Birmingham....	16th June 2011
northernlife.ca	SCIENCE NORTH COMMEMORATES THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC It was majestic. It was technologically advanced. It was supreme luxury. It sank off the coast of Newfoundland nearly 100 years ago and 1,517 people perished. More importantly, 706 survived to tell their stories. Fascination with the Titanic continues to this day, and on April 14, 2012, Science North will commemorate the sinking of the Titanic with a gala evening befitting of the most famous ocean liner in history. This event will bring people back in history to that fateful evening in 1912, and will include a modernized version of the last dinner served to the first class guests on the Titanic. ...	14th June 2011
eturbonews.com	TITANIC MUSEUM ATTRACTIONS GIVING AWAY 12 'BACK TO TITANIC' TRIPS TO BELFAST To commemorate Titanic’s Irish heritage, Titanic Museum Attractions in Branson, Mo. and Pigeon Forge, Tenn. will give away six 11-day trips for two to Belfast beginning today. The 12 winners of the “Back to Titanic 100th Year ‘Tour Ireland’ Sweepstakes” will go to Belfast where they will visit the birthplace of the world’s best-known, most luxurious ocean liner. ...	14th June 2011
northamptonchron.co.uk	NORTHAMPTON FIRM SUPPLIES PLATES FOR TITANIC TV DRAMA A KITCHEN equipment supplier in Northampton has provided 400 dining plates which will feature in an ITV series about the Titanic, due to be screened next year. To coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, ITV will be showing a mini series in 2012 divided into four hours, based on a screenplay written by Julian Fellowes, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of ITV1’s hit costume drama, Downton Abbey....	10th June 2011
bighospitality.co.uk	BELFAST DISTILLERY RELEASES WHISKEY TO COMMEMORATE TITANIC LAUNCH The Belfast Distillery Company has released a new whiskey brand to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the launch of the Titanic from one of the city's dockyards....	7th June 2011
pendletoday.co.uk	TITANIC MUSEUM TO SET SAIL IN PENDLE A NEW museum opening in Colne will bring the stories of the people of Lancashire, on board the Titanic when it sank, to life. The Titanic in Lancashire Museum will be located in the old Colne Grammar School, off Church Street, and will feature photographs and models of the ship. Visitors will also be able to get a closer look at fittings identical to those seen on the Titanic from its sister ship, RMS Olympic....	7th June 2011
irishtimes.com	WHY DID 'TITANIC' LOOM SO LARGE IN OUR IMAGINATIONS? IN THE LATE 1930s, Alfred Hitchcock considered making a film based on the sinking of Titanic but concluded that it would not be possible because it would lack the essential ingredient of his movies: suspense. Those of us who were bored rigid by James Cameron’s leaden cinematic epic may be inclined to agree....	4th June 2011
gazetteandherald.co.uk	IT'S A TITANIC PRICE AT DEVIZES dA plan of the doomed liner Titanic sold for £220000 at a Devizes auction on Saturday - twice its estimate. The huge drawing, which was used at the public inquiry into the 1912 sinking of the 'unsinkable' liner, was expected to fetch ......	2nd June 2011
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	LET'S HONOUR THE WORKING CLASS HEROES WHO BUILT THE GREAT TITANIC Why has this city been so tardy in marking its great link with the Titanic? Why are some here still griping about why we should even bother commemorating it now? The Titanic was a disaster, they say. Why bum about our role in building a ship that sank on its first outing? It's an argument that misses the point by a large iceberg. Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/lindy-mcdowell/lets-honour-the-working-class-heroes-who-built-the-great-titanic-16006543.html#ixzz1OCWL6Mw0 ...	2nd June 2011
independent.ie	THE TITANIC LOVE STORY THAT CAUSED A RIFT IN MY FAMILY Tom and Hannah had tickets for another vessel but were transferred to the Titanic. It must have seemed like a stroke of luck because steerage on the Titanic was equivalent to second class elsewhere. They shared their cabin with another couple. Privacy was a luxury other classes enjoyed. Still, meals were plentiful, and survivors' accounts report merriment in third class, where the predominantly young emigrants partied during this hiatus between two worlds. Everyone knows what happened next. Three days after leaving Cobh, on the night of April 14, 1912, the Titanic collided with an iceberg. It was a catastrophe that could have been averted if ice warnings from other ships had been heeded. Or perhaps if the lookouts had been given binoculars, instead of having them locked away on the bridge. The Titanic is a story peppered with ifs and buts, as tragedies tend to be....	2nd June 2011
ibtimes.com	UNSEEN PICTURES OF TITANIC ON 100TH YEAR OF LAUNCH NOAA wants to ensure that the memorial, historical, archaeological and scientific values of Titanic is preserved for future generations while sharing the story and images of the wreck with the public, it said. While NOAA strives to protect as well as make Titanic wreck site accessible to the public through 2010 documentation and pictures, start the slideshow to view some of the never-before-seen pictures of Titanic before it sank, the shipwreck and more:...	2nd June 2011
burnleycitizen.co.uk	NEW TITANIC IN LANCASHIRE MUSEUM TO OPEN IN COLNE THE story of the RMS Titanic and her maiden voyage will be brought to life at a new museum set to open in Colne - home to the ship's famous band leader. Maritime enthusiast Nigel Hampson is putting the finishing touches to the Titanic in Lancashire...	1st June 2011
irishtimes.com	PROTESTANTS ON TOP: 'TITANIC' WAS A MICROCOSM OF ULSTER SOCIETY Designed and built by unionist Freemasons at exactly the moment they were plotting partition, the ship contained many coded references to their secret political goal. The most obvious of these were the watertight compartments, any four of which could flood without sinking the vessel. Likewise, Northern Ireland was designed to stay afloat even if four counties filled up with Catholics. The decision to include lifeboats for only two-thirds of the people on board reflected the idea of Northern Ireland itself as a lifeboat for only two-thirds of the people on board. But there were life-vests for everyone, which frankly was more than some of them deserved....	1st June 2011
abc.net.au	TITANIC - 100 YEARS THEN AND NOW A special film about the Titanic and the last living survivors of its sinking premiered in Brisbane last night. Called Titanic - 100 Years Then and Now it took five years to make and involved shoots in Southhampton & Belfast where the Titanic was built ......	1st June 2011
liverpoolecho.co.uk	TITANIC PLANS NEED CAUTION It is being planned alongside a production at the Empire and new exhibitions at our museums as part of Liverpool's commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. ...	1st June 2011
bbc.co.uk	BELFAST CEREMONY MARKS TITANIC'S LAUNCH 100 YEARS ON A ceremony has taken place in Belfast to mark the moment the Titanic was launched 100 years ago. A large crowd of school children cheered as they attempted to re-enact the mood on the docks as those involved in building the ship watched her roll down ......	31st May 2011
bbc.co.uk	HOW CAN THE TITANIC BE CELEBRATED? More than 1500 people died when the Titanic sank. So why is the centenary of its launch being proudly celebrated in Northern Ireland, asks Tom de Castella. No other ship comes close to rivalling the gigantic shadow cast by the Titanic. ......	31st May 2011
cnn.com	SEE (THE REAL) TITANIC FOR $60000 Everyone is familiar with the story, but very few are able to see the Titanic in real life -- unless they can shell out $60,000. Bluefish, a luxury concierge firm based in Los Angeles, first offered an expedition to the Titanic site at the bottom of the North Atlantic Sea to its private clients in 2002. The firm took only eight people to the site between 2002 and 2006. And after the recession put a stranglehold on luxury spending, Bluefish took an economy-induced hiatus. "The recession hit and everything went to pot," said Steve Sims, the concierge firm's founder. As the recovery slowly gains steam, trips to the Titanic are back on and Bluefish is now accepting bookings for 2012. ...	31st May 2011
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	TITANIC BELFAST BUILDING IS JUST A SHELL, BUT ALREADY IT'S AWESOME Stepping through the entrance gates of the old Harland and Wolff drawing offices the new Titanic Belfast building looms impressively above me. The shiny aluminium shards which clad each of the four 90ft ‘hulls’ of the building glint in the sunlight, and as you walk closer you can see the different shapes which make each of them individual and give the impression of water glistening off the side of a boat as it cuts through the icy North Atlantic sea...	31st May 2011
guardian.co.uk	TITANIC LAUNCH MARKED 100 YEARS ON efore he left Belfast on board the Titanic, deck engineer Thomas Millar, 33, gave both his sons two new pennies, telling them: "Don't spend those until I see you again." He never came back. His younger son kept those pennies and passed them on to his daughter, Susie Millar, who was present at a ceremony to mark the centenary of the launch of the luxury liner into the river Lagan in Belfast, where the ship had been built....	31st May 2011
artlyst.com	TITANIC THE ART COLLECTION LOST AT SEA Today is the 100 anniversary of the launch of the S.S. Titanic in Belfast. Little recorded artwork was claimed through insurers in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and as we approach the centenary of the tragedy, it is curious to learn that the interiors, with all of it's opulence, had little original art commissioned of note. Most authors have overlooked the fact that there was still important art lost on the voyage....	31st May 2011
mirror.co.uk	TITANIC'S LAUNCH REMEMBERED It has always struck me as odd that Titanic has been responsible for attracting thousands of passengers to the glamour of cruising...	31st May 2011
independent.co.uk	£220000 FOR TITANIC PLAN A plan of the Titanic used in the inquiry into the sinking of the ship in 1912 has sold for what is believed to be a world record price for memorabilia of the doomed boat. The 33ft (10m) hand-drawn plan, estimated to fetch between ......	30th May 2011
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	CAN TITANIC CENTRE DELIVER AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCE? It’s great to hear all about the architectural features of the building as ‘Belfast’s Eiffel Tower’ and the banqueting for 750 covers. But will not visitors from across the globe also want to see something really historical, original and unique in the galleries to bring out that special factor? Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/letters/can-titanic-centre-deliver-authentic-experience-16005003.html#ixzz1NZQ08O92 ...	27th May 2011
baysidebulletin.com.au	VILLAGERS REMEMBER TITANIC APRIL 15 was the 99th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic and residents at Victoria Point’s Adventist Retirement Village marked the event with a special day of commemoration for the ship and those who lost their lives in the tragedy....	27th May 2011
thisisstaffordshire.co.uk	'TERRIBLE NEWS FROM THE ATLANTIC' THAT is how The Staffordshire Sentinel reported the sinking of the Titanic in ...Stoke & Staffordshire. The story read: 'The terribly alarming news reached us this morning that the new White Star Line Titanic, which was proceeding upon her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, has been in collision with an iceberg, and was in a sinking condition. ......	26th May 2011
thisisstaffordshire.co.uk	TITANIC STORY OFFERS MORE THAN JUST A DISASTER FILM HE story of the Titanic, which sunk almost 100 years ago, has been revisited in a new documentary. The one-hour film, Prepare To Launch, looks at the planning and preparation that went into the ill-fated liner, leading up to its launch in Belfast on May 31, 1911. Featuring words from shipbuilders, crew members and even survivors, the film also looks at the ship's links with Staffordshire, the most well-known being the Titanic's captain, Edward Smith, below, who was born in Well Street, Hanley in 1850....	26th May 2011
travelio.net	BELFAST MARKS 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LAUNCH OF THE TITANIC Belfast is set to mark the 100th anniversary of the launch of one of the city's most famous creations - RMS Titanic. On May 31st 1911, Titanic was launched into Belfast Lough by Harland & Wolff ...	25th May 2011
scotsman.com	TITANIC HERO WHO PLAYED ON TO THE BITTER END THE great-niece of a young violinist who played on the Titanic as it sank has told his story for the first time. John "Jock" Hume, 21, from Dumfries, was the youngest member of the RMS Titanic orchestra, which famously continued to play as the ship went down....	24th May 2011
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	£100M TITANIC BELFAST BUILDING TAKES VISITORS ON AMAZING VOYAGE - BELFAST TELEGRAPH Here is the first glimpse of what the new iconic Titanic Belfast building will look like inside. Opening in April 2012, the £100m structure in the Titanic Quarter, east Belfast, will be the largest man-made tourist attraction in Northern Ireland’s history. The people behind the building believe the "spirit that built Titanic is reborn". ...	24th May 2011
eturbonews.com	ALL EYES ON TITANIC MUSEUM ATTRACTIONS AS THE 100TH YEAR APPROACHES In May 1911, the RMS Titanic slid down Slipway No. 3 at the Queen's Yard of Harland & Wolff and settled on the waters of the Victoria Channel in Belfast, Ireland while more than 100000 people looked on....	23rd May 2011
southgatearc.org	AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY JOINS TITANIC COMMEMORATION The Adelaide Hills Amateur Radio Society was approached by a group named '1912 the Event' who are commemorating the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic in April 1912. They wanted a morse code operator for their displays, the first on May ......	22nd May 2011
scotsman.com	BOOK REVIEWS: RMS TITANIC, THE FIRST VIOLIN This deeply moving book centres on the story of the author's great uncle, John Law Hume. Patiently, it pieces together the Titanic story, showing how its narrative tragically ......	22nd May 2011
todaystmj4.com	TITANIC'S "UNKNOWN CHILD" HAS A LOCAL CONNECTION It's been one of the great mysteries of the Titanic disaster--a small boy found floating in the Atlantic, but nobody knew who he was. Now the mystery has finally been solved, and there's a local connection. ......	21st May 2011
eveningnews24.co.uk	BOUGHTON RESIDENT'S BOOK REVEALS TALE OF YOUNG BANDSMAN ON TITANIC When budding violinist John Hume got the nod to be the lead violinist on the doomed Titanic, he knew it was an opportunity he couldn't resist....	20th May 2011
dailyindia.com	HOLY GRAIL OF TITANIC MEMORABILIA MAY FETCH £150K AT AUCTION A 32-feet-long diagram that was used by witnesses and experts to establish the cause of the Titanic tragedy is all set to go under the hammer later this month and might fetch 150000 pounds.The huge drawing is headed 'SS "TITANIC. ......	20th May 2011

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